NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Spider-Man villain ___ Octavius 5 Beefeater and Bombay Sapphire
9 Woes
13 Prefix for many Ocean Spray products 14 Oak, in a nutshell? 16 The Big Easy 17 What a pratfall may be done for
20 Communist party systems
21 YouTube count
22 Actress Anne with four Emmy nominations
23 Some theater honors 25 Program followed in Alcoholics Anonymous 31 Proper way to pass
34 Sour-tasting fruit 35 A Stooge 36 What a swish misses
37 Agency HQ’d in Atlanta 40 41 May celebrant Bedouin, day e.g. 43 Title that translates to “great sage” 46 Sing under
pressure 49 Talk a big game 50 Change in the
Middle East, say 54 In a jubilant
fashion 56 Bug 59 Where magazines may be laid out 61 Apartment listing info 62 Apartment listing info 63 Way to go 64 ___ Scamander, protagonist of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” 65 They may be set aside in a collaboration 66 Chuck
Down
1 Razor handle? 2 Meet-cute in a romance film, e.g. 3 2021 Super Bowl host city 4 Where we are 5 Mother to the Titans 6 “Rhyme Pays” rapper 7 Doesn’t make it through a lecture, say 8 Honorific from Sanskrit 9 Overruns
10 Movie magnate Marcus 11 Entities with pass-through taxation, briefly 12 Got into the swing?
15 ___ Shute, “A Town Like Alice” novelist
18 Part of a cabinet
19 Vassal’s plot of land
24 “___ By Golly, Wow” (1972 hit by the Stylistics) 26 Judge of the Bible
27 Proof parts 28 California : palms :: New England : ___ 29 “That’s nonsense” 30 Match before the final
31 Its flag displays a curved dagger known as a khanjar 32 Filmmaker Ephron
33 ___ player
38 It holds water 39 Props, so to speak 42 Something kids often lose 44 Like some glasses
45 Question one might ask when looking at a banana taped to the wall
47 ___ contendere 48 ___ McCheese of old fast-food fame 51 Padmé Amidala’s home planet in “Star Wars” 52 Rockefeller Center statue 53 Orchestra section 54 Feature of a creature feature, perhaps 55 Some 57 Cowboys QB-turnedbroadcaster 58 Antarctica’s ___ Sea
59 Let go
60 Part of Italy where Calabria is found