NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 One of the Five
Pillars of Islam 5 Shakespeare,
informally 9 Mists 15 “Interesting…” 16 Spark, so to
speak 17 Taiwan’s capital 18 *“You fail to understand what I’m saying” 21 Nursery purchase 22 Smidgen 23 Info for a driver
at an airport 24 * Cheesy fare
served at a bar? 29 Old Renault 31 Berry marketed
as healthful 32 Chaplin of “Game
of Thrones” 33 Sanctify 34 Island garland 35 Bowled over 36 12- time Vatican
name 38 * 2006 cult- classic
action film 43 Flubs 44 Hurdle for a Ph. D. candidate, typically 45 Firefighter’s tool 47 One- named Spanish- born actress 50 No longer mint 51 Gush 52 Get connected after typing one’s password 53 *“This relationship is smothering me” 55 Conjunction in the middle of a famous palindrome 56 Vegetable with
pods 58 Narrow inlet 59 What a sci- fi portal might lead to… or what’s added successively to the ends of the answers to the starred clues 66 “The Bathers”
painter 67 Symphony, e. g. 68 Spicy chocolate
sauce 69 Trample 70 Horses that could be hounds or badgers? 71 Took to court
Down
1 Box- office
success 2 Pale wood 3 Org. in “Breaking
Bad” 4 Lakeside rental 5 Energy source
from a “farm” 6 Swear words? 7 Permit to 8 Eva Mendes or
Eva Longoria 9 Editor’s override 10 Official decree
from the Vatican 11 2016 Olympics
city, informally 12 Each 13 Busybodies 14 Musical instruments with frets 19 Trifling amount 20 Tough row to ___ 24 Bud 25 Finishes, as a
cake 26 Genesis son 27 Loamy soil 28 Intro to Chinese? 30 “Frozen” princess 35 LeBron James’s
hometown 36 “Gay” capital 37 Certain network
ID 39 Streamlined, for
short 40 Missing part of
the Sphinx 41 Mecca for
oenophiles 42 “Suit” 46 Source of feta
cheese 47 Unclogs 48 Big buzzer 49 Early
toddlerhood 50 Japanese
eel- and- rice dish 51 Involuntary
jerks 53 Like the verbs “lie” and “lay”: Abbr. 54 Do wrong 57 Jerome who composed “Ol’ Man River” 60 Blouse or
sweater 61 Hoppy quaff, for
short 62 Container for a
61- Down 63 Marker letters 64 Soccer match
shout 65 Mustachioed character on “The Simpsons”