NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Fab Four hairdos 5 Spiced tea variety

9 Hail Mary, for one

13 Totally awesome 14 Defense in a snowball fight 15 Chops finely 17 Psychedelic stuff from the Evergreen State? 19 Shrek and Fiona 20 Nash’s “two-l” beast

21 Lure

23 A, to Beethoven 24 Inning : baseball :: ___ : curling 26 Underwear from the First State? 28 Gambler’s action in the Cornhusker State? 32 Member of Islam’s largest branch 33 Tennis serving whiz 34 National Hot Dog Month

37 Music genre for the Village People

39 Calder Cup rink

org.

40 Forest animal in the state nicknamed Old Dominion? 42 Ate

43 Opposite of día 45 ___ stick

46 Snow blower

maker 47 Birds on Canadian dollar coins 49 Mosquito from the state nicknamed Land of Opportunity? 51 Highway divider in the Centennial State?

54 Mr. Turkey 55 Diamonds, slangily 56 Someone ___ (not mine or yours) 58 Moving around fast

62 Entire range 64 Pasta from the Golden State? 66 Word next to an arrow on a maze 67 Hard ___ (toiling away) 68 Lo-cal 69 Frequent Sicilian erupter 70 Daddy-o 71 © follower, typically

Down

1 Whimper 2 October

birthstone 3 Tuscany tower

site

4 Amount of cream cheese 5 Corporate $$$ overseer 6 Hilarious type 7 Ready for battle 8 Reply to “Who’s

there?”

9 Jut out 10 Bailed-out insurance giant 11 Attachment you might send to a tech person when you have a computer problem 12 “Whatever!” 16 Some Form 1040 data, for short 18 “You ___?” (butler’s response) 22 “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” airer

25 ___ vu 27 Magician’s name suffix 28 Palindromic bread 29 Navigate like a whale

30 Sign of hospitality 31 Backside 35 British throne? 36 Popular fitness class 38 Dumpster output 40 Blood feud 41 Put in proper piles 44 Something a tired gardener might lean on 46 How wallflowers act

48 The “S” of R.S.V.P. 50 Doofus

51 Pack of butts 52 Music copyright org. 53 Old-fashioned “Cool!” 57 Salon sound 59 Ballet bend 60 “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” grp. 61 Belgian river to the North Sea 63 Coffee dispenser 65 Tiebreaker periods, for short