The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Skunk’s

defense

5 High school exam, for short 9 Reddishpurple salad ingredient 13 Apple TV+

alternative 14 Shakespeare villain who says “I am not what I am” 15 Literature

Nobelist Alice 16 They’re

long for an underdog 17 Steffi with seven Wimbledon titles

18 Church choir accompaniment

19 Temp job? 22 ___/her

pronouns 24 Prevailed 25 Necklace that can be made with kukui nuts

26 Prefix with liberal or conservative 27 Union job? 31 Ones potentially contacted in “first contact” 32 Vowel sound at the end of 15and 26-Across 33 “La Vie en Rose” singer Edith

34 End of a hairy

limb

35 Watery or

papery 39 Yiddish

“Yikes!” 42 Have

ambitions (to) 44 Flex job?

47 It sells, it’s

said 48

MSNBC

competitor Chaired

Like the opening of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9

51 Dream job? 55 It travels at nearly 300 million meters per second 56 Apple Store

offerings 57 Story of one’s

life?

60 “Music is powered by ___”: Yo-Yo

Ma 61 Olympian’s

sword

62 Fuzzy bit of car

décor 63 Literature Nobelist Morrison 64 Some lab

liquids

65 Like Scotch

49 50

DOWN

1 “Well, well,

well!”

2 Fizzling

firework 3 Encyclopedia volumes vis-àvis Wikipedia, e.g.

4 Deceptive trick 5 Old-fashioned message carriers

6 South Asian

wrap

7 Petri dish filler 8 Coming up next 9 Small town 10 Driving force? 11 One might take off a few marks 12 Spanish for

“foolish” 15 What may be

heard in a herd 20 Exact lookalike 21 Slim and trim

By Dan Schoenholz

22 Give this for

that

23 Lead-in to pad 28 Clear up, as ski

goggles 29 Works in a

theater 30 Likely to offend, in brief 34 George Eliot and George Orwell, for two 36 Really prosper 37 ___ Man, one of the Avengers 38 Wonkish sort 40 America’s Cup

vessels 41 Bottleful in un

ristorante

42 It was once the world’s fourthlargest lake 43 Sch. system with campuses in Buffalo and Binghamton 44 Affirmative reply to “Understand?” 45 Earth’s most abundant element 46 Bullet with a

trail

47 Bad break in

bowling 52 Spiced tea 53 Scruff of the

neck

54 Many a cocktail mixer 58 “Rocks” in a

cocktail

59 Big name in

online talks