The new york times crossword

ACROSS 1 Bunch of wolves or cards 5 Busy with

other things 11 The Beatles’ “Till There ___ You” 14 Jai ___ (sport) 15 Francis of old TV’s “What’s My Line?” 16 It clinks in a

drink 17 Nurses, as a

drink 18 Swamp in

“Pogo” 20 In few words 22 Museumfunding org. 23 Like auto shop

rags DOWN 24 1990s cartoon 1 Linguine or series fettuccine featuring Not from Yakko, Wakko Earth and Dot ___ pants 27 Org. featured (cropped style in the popularized in documentary the 1960s) “This Film Is Instruction to Not Yet Rated” Kate in a Cole 28 Abbr. meaning Porter title

“and others” 5 “___ Te Ching” 29 Arizona college 6 Rub the wrong

town way

31 Some Best 7 Justice Kagan Buy buys, 8 Reason for a for short markdown 34 Doggie doc 9 Disquieted 36 Bones next to state

ulnae 10 Writing 39 Baby-boomer implement series that filled with 37Down starred Ken

Olin 11 Popular online 44 Indian stringed reference

instrument 12 Amtrak 45 Around express train 50.25% of the 13 “So long!” world’s adult 19 Tuba sound population 21 Enjoy a meal 46 Letters before 25 Dark shade of

an alias blue

47 Meters and Parts of

liters a French 50 Eve’s man archipelago 53 Pinnacle Actor with the 55 Poet William famous line “I who wrote pity the fool!” “The Prelude” Six for a TD, 60 Play opener e.g. 61 Flamenco

cheer 62 Reproductive

cell for a fern 63 South American rodent with soft, dense fur 67 One may be half-baked or brilliant 68 “___ soon?” 69 “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” author Joan 70 Must-have 71 ID in the form

xxx-xx-xxxx 72 X-ray followup, perhaps 73 Deities 2 3 4 26 30 31 32 Ho ___ Minh

City

33 Word before room or comedy

35 Male cat 37 10-Down

filler 38 “Hometown proud” supermarket 40 Jeannette ___, first woman elected to Congress 41 Prefix between

bi- and quad42 Cultural anthropologist Margaret 43 Make ___ meet 48 Like some well-pitched games

49 One side in

eight-ball pool 51 “How cute!” sounds

52 In a sulk 53 Agreements 54 Amazon speakers introduced in 2014 56 Archaeologist’s

find

57 Contest with roping and riding 58 Cornered, in a

way

59 Two are better than one, they say

64 Public health

agcy.

65 Mauna ___ (Hawaiian volcano) 66 Journalist

Curry

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