NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 K follower
5 Run for it!
9 Ingredient separated and whipped in meringue
13 One with a title
14 Purloin
15 TV host with the memoir “Born a Crime”
16 “Hoarders” network
17 Novelist Walker
18 Major-___
19 Political party founded in 1966
22 Oh, it’s nothing
23 Perimeter of a billiards table
24 Devil dog
26 Speakeasy, by another name
29 “Bye-bye”
30 Mailroom stamp: Abbr.
31 ___ vez (again, in Spanish)
33 T-shirt choices, for short
34 Shortly before the events of the New Testament
36 Wyatt, Virgil or Morgan of the Old West
38 “Praise be to ___”
42 Language in which the majority of words are monosyllabic
44 Up votes
46 Woman’s name that means “violet”
47 Pushes to the side
50 Like the Kardashians’ heritage
52 Sole proprietorship?
54 They might help you get a grip
55 Little downtime
56 Saying “You’ve never looked better,” maybe
60 Chorus at an arena de fútbol
62 Time off
63 Inland’s opposite
64 Sage
65 Hard hit, in baseball lingo
66 Wear in ancient Rome
67 Many a country road
68 Brand of “anti-aging” products
69 Fr. religious figures
Down
1 [blown kiss]
2 Author of “Interview With the Vampire”
3 Old Glory
4 Hesitant to act
5 What a foul
mouth is full of?
6 Counselor to Job
7 Get into
8 Container brand that lost its trademark status in 1963
9 Terminus
10 “I’ll be right behind you”
11 Main Las Vegas industry
12 Outer space phenomenon photographed for the first time in 2019
13 Clif Bar bit
14 Muggle Net, for Harry Potter devotees
20 Prime Cuts and T-Bonz brand
21 Actress Hayek
25 It might prevent an overload of the power grid
26 Compadre
27 ___ Wiseman, director of “Total Recall”
28 & 32 Ambiguity … or a hint to this puzzle’s theme
35 Is allowed to, quaintly
37 Significant other
39 DC reporter
40 Carrier to Tokyo
41 Chick magnet?
43 Game whose dual-colored pieces are apt for this puzzle’s theme
45 Air apparent?
47 Gene with a large ’stache of films?
48 “Fingers crossed!”
49 Cirque du ___
51 Passes
52 “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” heroine
53 Starter course?
57 Two-time Tonywinning actress Judith
58 Goddess often depicted holding an ankh
59 And so on: Abbr.
61 Mo. when Oktoberfest starts