The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 9-to-5 activity 5 In heaven,
say
10 Like a Saturday
crossword 14 Person in a boardroom, informally 15 It’s in the details, they say
16 Arthur who wrote “Days of Grace” 17 Meat substitute 18 Cards in
Monopoly 19 Put the kibosh
on
20 French conductor Boulez 22 Upscale hotel
facility 23 Electrical unit 26 “___ relax”
(“Breathe”) 27 Web-footed
diver
28 Things that may be broken when moving? 30 Pic picked in a
parlor
32 Gare de l’___, Paris railway station 33 Senegal’s
capital 34 Where the sheep is in “Little Boy Blue”
37 One totally unlike another … or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has? 41 Inscribed stone
markers 42 Having no toppings, as a pizza
44 Singer/ songwriter DiFranco 47 Rocks, in
drinks 48 Pooh’s morose
friend 49 Complete stranger, slangily 51 Gregor ___, Kafka character who transforms in “The Metamorphosis”
54 Put in stitches 55 Unpleasant
encounter 56 Madison Square Garden team 58 “Really?” 59 Bird whose beak inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution 60 Fend (off) 64 Flying
formations 65 Accustom to
difficulty 66 Taiwanese electronics giant
67 Like a Monday
crossword 68 In hell, say 69 Off-hours
activity
Down
1 Rainy
2 Big name in
kitchen utensils 3 Arena arbiter,
informally 4 Single-serving
coffee pod 5 Venomous snakes with zigzag patterns on their backs 6 Drunken,
in a way
7 Not hidden 8 Obsolescent home movie format
9 They loop
the Loop 10 Rips into 11 Shrewd 12 Some French
wines
13 Take off, as a
plane
21 Method of successive improvement 22 In some sense 23 Like the year you ring out on December 31 24 In a ___ of
trouble 25 Speedy shark 29 Pizza joint in “Do the Right Thing” 31 Hubbub 34 Fancy notebook
brand 35 Fuel economy
org.
36 Foxlike 38 Critic’s pick,
for short 39 Tourist city in New Mexico’s high desert 40 Dublin’s land 43 Like the year you ring in on January 1 44 Land, as a
plane 45 Seasickness,
e.g.
46 Some belly
buttons 48 Forgo 50 Bubbleheaded 52 Cancel 53 Prefix with
aggression 57 Exchange 59 Little lie 61 Kind of tear for an athlete 62 Stephen of “V
for Vendetta” 63 Not rainy