NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Set of pictures at a dentist’s 6 Crow’s sound 9 Reprieves 15 Event for meeting new people 16 “I love,” to Cato 17 Perfect world 18 “The one thing that’s clear to me …” 20 Picked 21 Appear 22 “Smoking or ___?” 23 Boxing achievements, in brief 24 Distant 29 Narrow water passage 32 “___ day now…” 33 Villainous count in the Lemony Snicket books 35 Obama’s successor 36 Jason’s ship 37 Pull off perfectly 38 Many millennia 39 Police operation … or, when read another way, what a grammarian would like to do to 18-, 24-, 52and 65- Across? 43 Day-___ paint 44 Japanese soup 46 Boaters’ implements 47 Some woodwinds 49 Lose traction on the road 50 Vietnamese soup 51 What Google’s Ngram program tracks, for word usage 52 Narrative connector 56 Peach pit or walnut 57 Greedy one 58 Peach or walnut 62 Cuba’s capital 65 “What do you think of …?” 67 Unscripted comedy, informally 68 Mimic 69 Watch over 70 Blue state? 71 Fluorescent bulb alternative, for short 72 Novices
Down
1 Dec. celebration 2 Tick off 3 What car wheels turn on 4 Polite affirmative 5 ___ Lanka 6 Group of books that an educated person is supposed to be familiar with 7 In the company of 8 Blow away 9 Jealous words of congratulations 10 Cultural spirit 11 “You can’t joke about that yet” 12 FedEx rival 13 Thanksgiving dessert 14 ___ Juan, Puerto Rico 19 Problem with a shoelace 23 Dance in which one partner might hold a rose between his teeth 25 One might apply gloss to them 26 Things for sale 27 Old- fashioned wine holder 28 Unsuccessful 29 Thorny parts of roses 30 Group of three 31 Enters hurriedly 34 Often- unheeded advice from dentists 36 Ohio city that was once the Rubber Capital of the World 40 Liable to tip over, maybe 41 Expressed amazement 42 Labourite’s opponent, in British politics 45 “Most likely…” 48 Big electronics chain 51 License plates 53 Choir member 54 “Fingers crossed!” 55 Planted, as discord 59 Sound to fear in the savanna 60 Currency with a “€” symbol 61 When planes are due to take off, for short 62 That guy 63 “What ___, chopped liver?” 64 Biden and Pence, in brief 65 Actor Holbrook 66 10%- er: Abbr.