The new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 Thing with pads
and claws 4 Wanders
9 Rod, reel, tackle box, etc., for a fisher 13 Olympic Dream
Team inits. 14 Place in a
mausoleum 16 ___ Tokarczuk, 2018 Literature Nobelist 17 Raiser of the
dead?
19 Musk who founded
SpaceX 20 Brainstorms 21 Go by, as time 23 Young Scottish
lady
24 Financial aid for college that doesn’t need to be repaid 27 Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q
29 Person with a
basket or cart 31 Mixed-breed dog that’s part spaniel 35 “Keen!” 36 “That’s ___ from me” (refusal) 37 Arthropod that can roll into a ball
40 Melted
chocolate, e.g. 41 Word before
mall or poker 43 Right to cross someone else’s land
45 Unlucky
48 Start of a newspaper article, in journalese 49 Busy person just before an election 51 Pledge drive
giveaway
55 Fix, as a shoe 56 Insects that
love wool 57 Appropriate initials of “stuff we all get” 59 Lures for magazine readers
62 Tiny bit 63 Minneapolis’s
twin city 64 Defining period 65 Banana leftover 66 Cosmetician
Lauder
67 Singer Lana Del
___
DOWN
1 Necessity for a
teacher
2 Carne ___ (grilled beef dish)
3 Home of Cardiff
and Swansea 4 Yanks’ foes 5 Number said just before “Liftoff!”
6 ___ snail’s pace 7 Edible mushroom with a honeycomb cap
8 Gets a whiff of 9 Flips out
10 Best Actress nominee for “Juno”
11 “A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away …” (“Star Wars” intro)
12 Tried to get
elected
15 “Erin go ___!” 18 Elective eye
surgery 22 Having tines 24 Big ___, nickname of baseball’s David Ortiz 25 Unstable chemical compound 26 Grand ___
National Park 28 Comes down a mountain, in a way 30 Rummage
(around) 31 Alternative
to Venmo 32 Like some beer
at a bar 33 Related to big
business
34 Cry to a
toreador
38 Hay unit
39 For whom a product designer designs 42 Against the law 44 Trending hashtag beginning in 2017 46 Dots on a
transit map 47 What lieutenants do to captains 50 “Trees” in underwater forests
It’s said to have the thickest fur of any mammal 53 When repeated, comforting words
54 Op-ed piece, e.g. 56 Farm animal
that kicks 57 Sample a soda,
say 58 Tribulation 60 Back muscle, for
short 61 “What?,” in
Oaxaca
52
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