NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Bad singer?
4 Start (with)
8 Thingy
14 “I kissed thee ___ I kill’d thee”: “Othello”
15 T, as in tests
16 Cause to boil
17 Ones sporting man buns and ironic T-shirts, say
19 Early 1900s kitchen appliance
20 Closest living relatives of whales
22 Land of plenty?
23 Strikebreakers
24 It may get pushed back on the weekend
28 Aggressive campaign
32 Pelvic joints
34 Finely ground quartz
35 They enforce discipline among legislators
40 Gusto
41 “Where’d you get that ___?”
42 Locations of some dives
44 Like park ranger’s pants, often
46 ___ Ziff, Marge’s ex-boyfriend on “The Simpsons”
47 Kind of gland
49 Three sheets to the wind
54 Bob of “Full House”
56 Common bit of golf attire
57 Inseparable … or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle?
62 Quiet
63 Little dipper?
64 Can’t stand
65 Maker of Brownie Brick Road ice cream
66 4x4
67 Meetings for two
68 Muscle targeted by military presses, in brief
69 ___ school
Down
1 Get back into shape
2 Come up
3 Lukewarm
4 ___ the Autopilot, inflatable balloon character in “Airplane!”
5 Dicing onions, mincing garlic, etc.
6 Symbol that Mac users get by pressing Option + Shift +2
7 Contents of birdhouses
8 Home to Planck, Einstein and Heisenberg when they won their Nobel Prizes
9 Nightmare personified
10 Petite, for one
11 TV journalist Pressman with a Peabody and 11 Emmys
12 Freudian topics
13 State since 1845: Abbr.
18 Dust-up
21 Admits
25 Noticeably unfriendly
26 Does a groundskeeper’s job
27 Exhibited relief, in a way
29 Smart ___
30 Dorm room feature
31 Tel. number add-ons
33 It can be heavier in the summer
35 Rodentlike relative of a rabbit
36 Condition that fidget tools can help with, for short
37 Bring up
38 Not stay neutral
39 Compete in a Summer Olympics event
43 Stephen of “The Crying Game”
45 Most asinine
48 Deal sealers
50 Particular, for short
51 Run-of-the-mill
52 Upper echelon
53 Took performanceenhancing drugs
55 Caught on audio
57 Taunt
58 Like some highfiber cereal
59 Changing fortune, metaphorically
60 Texter’s farewell
61 Biblical verb with “thou”
62 E.P.A.-banned pesticide