The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Discontinue 5 ___ cake (dessert with a liquid chocolate core) 9 Skewered

meat dish 14 Wander 15 "Victory is

mine!"

16 Reply to

"Grazie"

17 A ??

19 Feeling the

need to scratch 20 Blanc who was known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices"

21 Tries not to be

found 22 "Hello," in

Mandarin 23 Categorize 25 Give lip to 26 Where visitors take photos pretending to hold up a landmark 28 Not playing any songs, as a radio station 31 Rocker Lavigne 34 Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer 36 Never Have I ___ (party game) 37 Shakespearean

"Tsk!"

38 B ??

41 X–III

42 Berry rich in antioxidants (and vowels) 44 Accessory that may denote military rank 45 Deep chasm 47 Smallest unit of purchasing power, in an idiom 49 51 52

56 58 61

62 63 65

66 67

68 69 70

Field of play? Double Dutch equipment Racetrack shapes 4 Pay-___-view 5 City ___

(place for a population sign)

6 Wowed 7 Botanical

climber

8 Flik and Dot, in

"A Bug's Life" 9 Kind of cord or

column 10 Skilled

performer

11 E ??

12 Persian

honorific 13 Fluctuate

wildly 18 Skydiving or a ride on a roller coaster

24 Big name in

nail polish 25 Whole host 27 Corroded

1 2

3

Start of a spell Liquid-ate? "You can say that again!" High-end Honda Pancakes sometimes served with caviar

Apt anagram of "yea"

Put forward B ??

Speak one's mind

Cereal crop Gave the goahead

Quick kisses Occasion for blowing out candles, informally Dudes

DOWN

By Andrew Kingsley and Garrett Chalfin

28 "Hi," in Lanai 29 Lanai neckwear 30 Mother of

Kim, Kylie and Kourtney

31 A ways away 32 The "V" of V.P. 33 Follow a composer's notation ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle 35 Show

stoppers? 39 "Winning ___

everything" 40 Fictional land

ruled by Aslan 43 Winter Olympics facility 46 Naughty

48 Fills with

delight 50 Anonymous creator of a painting sold at auction that subsequently shredded itself 53 A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity 54 "Sheesh!" 55 Tends to an overgrown garden

56 Each

57 Make do 58 Amorphous

shape 59 Hamperful 60 Smallest bit 64 Daily record