NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Grand in scale 5 Potentially
offensive
9 Let the air out of 14 Prefix meaning
one- billionth 15 ___ Lum, a. k. a. actress/ comedian Awkwafina
16 Go deep
17 Stage a coup 19 Meat scraps
20 “The way” 21 Reinforces 22 Titular “married lady” in a “Funny Girl” song 25 Burns a bit 27 Steadfast
28 Pick a spread, say 31 Emma Stone’s character in
“La La Land” 32 Word after
Scotch or duck 33 Sport in which rikishi wear mawashi 34 Fearsome beasts 37 Products since the 1960s … on which you can see five “key” things depicted in this puzzle 41 Wire holder
42 “Law & Order:
SVU” actor 43 Spot for a napkin 44 Born
45 Voting no 46 Coral island nation north of Fiji 47 Oft- repeated
slogan
50 Cooped up like
pigs
51 Coupon clipper,
e. g.
52 Genre of “The Big Sleep” and “Kiss Me Deadly” 56 Instant
57 Fifth grader,
often
61 Mineral in some
geodes 62 Waterfall sound 63 Thick and
clumpy
64 First name of a famous Mongol ruler
65 Addenda
66 “Twittering
Machine” artist
Down
1 Grade school
subj.
2 Course objective 3 Bisected 4 Playground
“germ”
5 “For ___ whomsoever much is given …”: Luke 12: 48
6 “Me neither” 7 Athletes first allowed in the Olympics in 1988 8 Mollifies
9 Band with the 1970 # 1 hit “Mama Told Me ( Not to Come)” 10 French daily
founded in 1826 11 Oscar nominee
Woodard 12 Some paid spots 13 Fish whose blood is toxic to humans
18 “Uh- uh!,” in
Edinburgh
22 “Never mind, it’s
fine”
23 City of the
Peloponnese 24 Discovered, as a
shady past
26 “Throw it here!” 28 The usual
suspect
29 Mopey and ultra
introspective 30 Vodka mixer 33 Substitutes for
feet
35 Zhou in Chinese
history
36 Co- founder of the Black Panthers 38 Classic checker
dropping game 39 Green prefix 40 Tater
46 Cassette tape
predecessor 47 Aunt ___, despised relative of Harry Potter 48 Like rails and
stilts
49 Thespian org. 50 Covetousness,
for one
51 ___ beetle 53 Shout of victory 54 Material in automobile batteries
55 Dr. J’s team 58 Many a hoedown participant 59 Scrape ( by) 60 Manhattan
ingredient