The New York Times crossword puzzle
No. 1124
Across
1 Blacksmith’s waste
5 More than right … or seldom correct?
11 Chicago-toAtlanta dir.
14 “Easy to Be Hard” musical of the late 1960s
15 Bad record to set
16 Original “Veronica Mars” airer
17 Absolute power [chopped]
19 “Annabel Lee” poet
20 Writer Joyce Carol ___
21 1990s Indian prime minister
22 Ending with ecto- or pachy23 Phrase on many No Trespassing signs [chopped]
27 Including an unlisted number?
28 Brain parts
29 Comic cry of dismay
32 Concerns for golfers
35 Game with scrums
37 Waste minimizers [chopped]
41 Member of the British Commonwealth in the Mediterranean
42 Work hard
43 ___ soda
44 Fiery passions
46 Jamaican exports
49 Self-deprecate, then pause to get a reaction [squeezed]
55 Detail-oriented and then some
56 Cartoon cry of dismay
57 Nonsubmerging W.W. II menace
58 Lead-in to an ext.
59 Topping made with this puzzle’s chopped and squeezed ingredients
62 ___ reminder
63 Chump
64 Place
65 Drug in the 1980 film “Altered States”
66 Tiny creature on a slide
67 Just in case
Down
1 1993 Salt-NPepa hit
2 2019 N.F.L. M.V.P. Jackson 3 “___ a stinker?”: Bugs Bunny
4 Be in mourning
5 1981 Grammy co-winner for “Double Fantasy”
6 Omaha stake?
7 Little pest
8 Opposite of radial
9 “Neat!”
10 One in a cote with a coat
11 Id checkers
12 Lululemon purchase
13 “Them”
18 Exam for many jrs.
22 World premiere
24 Barbershop supply
25 Rosewater of Kurt Vonnegut’s “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater”
26 Boeuf alternative
29 Skimmer’s target, often
30 Tomfoolery
31 Dark green side dish
33 Brooding style in music or fashion
34 Vice president between Hubert and Gerald
36 Big inits. in handbags
38 Longtime CBS journalist Lesley
39 ___-truths
40 One who may endow a scholarship, informally
45 Concern for one with hypertension
47 Digital video format
48 Real dirtbag
49 Like some flaws
50 Boxer Marciano’s given name
51 Epic mess-up at a critical moment
52 “Seriously!”
53 Yarns
54 Dark beer
59 Nonprofit spot, in brief
60 Secretary of the Interior Haaland
61 #MeToo ___