NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across 1 ___ San Lucas (Baja resort city) 5 Chew the fat 8 Maze runner in an experiment 14 Brewery products 15 Pitcher’s stat 16 “Uncle!” 17 Five-time N.B.A. championshipwinning coach with the Lakers and the Heat 19 Cable channel with many science shows, familiarly 20 “Ready, ___, fire!” 21 Ballad, e.g. 23 Circus enclosure 24 Garfield, to Jon
Arbuckle 27 Notable statistic for Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates 29 Opening
number? 30 Prosciutto, e.g. 32 Physicians, for
short
33 Obtain 34 Mountain overlooking Tokyo
37 Casino floor V.I.P. 40 Make tiny
criticisms
43 Ruler of old
Russia 44 Broadcast
45 ___ tai (cocktail) 46 Bygone monthly for the 12-to-20 set 50 “The A-Team” actor with a mohawk 51 Road hazards that need filling 54 “Be patient!” 56 “Your turn,” on a walkie-talkie 57 Appear to be 59 Surface of a sty 60 Peeved 62 Dessert loaf 66 Cheap cigar, slangily
67 CBS forensics franchise 68 Midwife’s delivery
69 Sailor
70 “I know what you’re thinking” feeling, for short 71 First word in a fairy tale Down 1 Salary limit 2 ___ carte 3 Software trial runs
4 Duel overseer in “Hamlet”
5 Do stuff? 6 Warlike Greek
god
7 Musket
attachment 8 Width’s
counterpart 9 Santa ___ winds 10 Proceeding from
low to high 11 America’s largest firearm manufacturer 12 Secret ___ (007, for one) 13 Egyptian god usually pictured with the head of an ibis 18 Apple computer 22 Neighbor of Homer on “The Simpsons” 24 “___ and Circumstance” 25 Break off a relationship 26 Yanks (on) 28 Drift, as an aroma 31 Hi-___ screen 35 Singer with the 1961 hit “Big Bad John” 36 Comforting words
38 Place to shower and brush one’s teeth 39 Cookie with creme in the middle 40 Never, in Nuremberg 41 Tehran’s land 42 Eartha who sang “C’est Si Bon” 44 Perfect attendance spoiler 47 Yankees legend ___ Howard 48 Originally named 49 Egyptian pyramid, e.g. 51 John, Paul and John Paul 52 Undeveloped seed
53 Four: Prefix 55 Highperformance engine 58 Dishevel, as the hair
61 Work ___ sweat 63 Extra 15% or so for a waiter 64 Simple as ___ 65 Henna, for one