NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Imperfection 7 Shouts made with the waving of white hankies 11 Yo- yo 14 ___ Brothers, duo who sang “Wake Up Little Susie” 15 Part of a bottle 16 Skin art,

informally 17 Satirist Tom 18 Prefix with

cultural 19 Airport info, for

short 20 Cheesy 1992

military drama? 23 Aid and ___ 26 Fish with tiny

scales 27 Earned a ticket,

maybe 28 Cheesy 1987

thriller? 33 Supply for Wile

E. Coyote 34 Many promgoers: Abbr. 35 Singer/ songwriter Bareilles 36 Mediterranean building material 38 Jousters’

equipment 42 Rock that rolls? 44 ___ G, Sacha Baron Cohen character 45 Contents of a

vein 46 Cheesy 1993

legal drama? 50 ___ beans 51 Summertime

setting: Abbr. 52 Cluster at many a highway interchange 53 Cheesy 2001

animated film? 58 The CW

superseded it 59 Roman moon

goddess 60 “Easy- peasy!” 64 Locale for a

bathysphere 65 Poker stake 66 John famous for

“silly walks” 67 “___ dead, Jim” 68 Something you

might slip on 69 “Wait a minute

…”

Down

1 It’s SE of Penn. 2 Wall- E’s love 3 Dismissive

interjection 4 Typos, e. g. 5 Curly musical

symbol 6 “Pericles, Prince

of ___” 7 Wild equine 8 Tolkien elf played in film by Orlando Bloom 9 Beige- ish 10 Result of driving

on ice, perhaps 11 Resuming the previous speed, in music 12 Glossy fabric 13 Custer’s “last”

thing 21 Hoses down 22 Kind of cuisine

with stir- frying 23 Times of day in

classifieds 24 Like the wire in

clothes hangers 25 Question for

Brutus 29 Songwriters’ org. 30 Valuable

collection 31 Certain lily 32 Coach… or what a coach is part of 37 Mr. ___ 39 Cheesy stuff 40 Leprechauns’

land 41 Goes out with 43 Just firm

enough 44 Follower of John 46 Rug you don’t

walk on 47 Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, in “The Lion King” 48 Acre’s land 49 Inexpensive writing implement 50 Reduce to a

pulp 54 Certain shot in

hockey 55 Adjust, as a

piano 56 Nonmetric

measure 57 The Big Easy 61 Gas option:

Abbr. 62 Spanish bear 63 Editor Bradlee of The Washington Post