The new york times crossword

"___ Lang Syne" Played the role of

Sights at overnight rest stops

13 [That's

hilarious!] 15 Huntsville's

home: Abbr. 16 Make amends 17 "Sex and the City" actress

___ Jessica Parker 18 Flag-waver's

specialty 20 Visibly in awe 21 Walk loudly 22 "The Simpsons"

neighbor 23 "When the going gets tough, the early bird gets the worm," e.g.

26 What's needed for a "Who's on First?" routine

27 "Why are you in

such a rush?" 30 "Darn!," in

Germany 33 Listing near a museum door, perhaps 37 Southwestern

wolf

38 Best Actor nominee for "12 Years a Slave" 42 Famed art

patron Henry 43 Houston N.F.L.

player 44 Whatever floats

your boat! 45 Word with soul

or sob 48 Manhattan hoops venue, in brief

50 In an unprecedented manner

57 What some online blockers block 1 5

8

ACROSS

59 Sealy competitor 60 Some traffic

directors 61 March Madness component that's a phonetic hint to 18-, 23-, 38- and 50-Across 63 "My ___" ("Put your money away") 64 Escape

65 Work whose name comes from the Greek for "sing" 66 Close call 67 Amount at

stake

68 Kind of

school 69 "Anything

___?"

Variety of Indian tea

2 Eel, at a sushi

restaurant 3 Literary character who cries "You're glumping the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed!" 4 Hung loosely 5 Garbage 6 Wide-awake 7 American ___ 8 Lyric poet from

Lesbos

9 Biblical verb

ending 10 Overhead features on sports cars 11 Memo heading 12 What the stone is in a stone fruit

14 Jeff Bridges's "Big Lebowski" stoner role, familiarly 19 Circuitry

units 24 Unworthy of

debate

1

DOWN

By Drew Schmenner

25 City with 40 islands and nearly 350 lakes within its limits

28 "O," in W.W. II

radio lingo 29 Screenwriter

Ephron 30 Doesn't

hesitate 31 Variety of Indian

tea

32 Suddenly encounters trouble 34 "Interwebs" 35 ___ Miss 36 "Vivat ___!" ("Long live the king!") 39 Dampens 40 Doorway feature 41 Web

attachments? 46 Eve who wrote "The Vagina Monologues" 47 Destination for

scuba divers 49 Sensation on a

roller coaster 51 Sound of a roar,

maybe 52 Practice piece 53 Stood on hind

legs, with "up" 54 N.B.A. great nicknamed "Diesel" 55 Derrières 56 Cosmetics

mogul Lauder 57 Several

58 Go full ___ (make a big deal of things, in modern slang) 62 Ending with lime

or orange

LE

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