NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Soak ( up) 4 With 14- Across, weakness for sugar 9 Fix, as a race 12 It’s on the

waterfront 14 See 4- Across 15 Juno’s Greek

counterpart 16 Designer Gucci 17 With 25- Down, 2012 British Open winner 18 Those, in Spain 19 What a rolling stone is unlikely to gather 21 Kurt of Nirvana 23 Retro 24 Baby 26 Pile up 27 A little thick 30 Same old,

same old 31 Police dept. alert 32 Sharper 35 Cries of disgust 36 Christmas tree decoration… or a hint to what the circled letters form 38 Gets underway 41 I’m not buying it! 45 “___ take arms against a sea of troubles”: Hamlet 46 Something

squirreled away? 50 Like black sheep 51 Tree with smooth

bark 53 Long- handled

tool 54 Language group that gave us “banjo” and “gumbo” 55 ___- chic ( hippie inspired fashion) 56 “But of course!” 57 Popular footwear from Down Under 58 “That would

stink” 60 “Gilmore Girls”

protagonist 63 Shield 64 Part of a shore

dinner 65 Dot- dot- dot, dash- dash- dash, dot- dot- dot 66 “Yahoo!” 67 Put an end to

something? 68 Blue Stater, for

short

Down

1 Baden- Baden, for

one 2 “Moby- Dick” light

source 3 Human- powered

taxi 4 Vermeer and Rembrandt contemporary 5 Tattered 6 Forever and a

day 7 Suffix with diet 8 2000s teen drama set in Newport Beach 9 What’s left 10 Absolutist’s rule 11 Number for a

surgeon? 13 Tends to, as a

cradle 15 Flip call 20 Show disdain for,

in a way 22 Recurring action role for Matt Damon 23 Sound heard

from a herd 25 See 17- Across 27 Netflix item 28 “The Holly and the ___” ( Christmas song) 29 Hearing aid? 33 Archaeological

handle 34 Make, as dough 36 Stitch with a

hook 37 Fills with fury 38 Loud lament 39 New York City bridge, informally, with “the” 40 Fate who cuts

the thread of life 42 2010 Disney film that set a record for the most expensive animated movie ever made 43 Gallery sign 44 Romanian

currency 47 Given to talk 48 “Would you look

at that!” 49 Worlds 52 Potful for

Winnie- the- Pooh 54 Succumb to

pressure? 58 Some office

printers, for short 59 South American

tuber 61 Arles assent 62 Suffix with real or

social