NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Combat sport on pay-per-view, in brief

4 On the ___ of the

moment

8 Like oversize

clothes

13 ___ milk

(nondairy choice) 14 On the up-andup

16 Match in opinion 17 *Asian American who became only the second woman to win the Oscar for Best Director

19 Shrek’s love 20 Listened to 21 Penthouse or

attic

23 Rear end, to Brits 24 *Runway model famous for her work as a Victoria’s Secret Angel

26 Agcy. dealing with workplace accidents 28 Animals around

the house 29 Elvis’s wife 34 Jewish community center, for short 37 D.C. “Squad”

member 38 Fashionable … or where you might find the starts of the answers to the starred clues 41 Command between “ready” and “fire” 42 Like a basso’s

voice 44 Vegetables in traditional moussaka

46 Did a sketch 49 Disturb, as

sediment 50 *Longest resident performer at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace 54 Have ___ in one’s

belfry 58 Response to a

stimulus

59 Baked pudding of potatoes or noodles in Jewish cooking 60 Loosen, as laces 61 *Atlanta rapper featured on Lizzo’s Grammynominated “Exactly How I Feel”

64 Bishop’s hat 65 Stop and Yield 66 AOL, for one 67 Budweiser and Beck’s

68 Altoids containers

69 Tennis court divider

Down

1 Chocolateflavored coffee 2 HBO’s “Real Time

With Bill ___” 3 Book of maps 4 Transport down a

winter hill 5 Dispenser candy 6 “That tastes bad!” 7 Cowboy’s rope 8 Perplex 9 Nimbleness 10 Bachelor party

attendee 11 Italian city where Columbus was born

12 Ache (for) 15 Saturday morning TV character 18 Dunkable

cookies

22 Vitality

24 Place for a

goatee

25 Split in two 27 Biol. or chem. 29 Increase unnecessarily, as an expense report

30 ___ v. Wade 31 Cold drink with

caffeine 32 Something to

throw on a fire 33 Belligerent, in

London 35 Runaway success 36 Mornings,

informally 39 “Once ___ a time” 40 Inventor Whitney 43 More costly 45 Collection of

songs

47 Goes in

48 One of ancient China’s Three Kingdoms

50 Bit of bread 51 Start of a playground rhyme

52 Kennel occupants 53 Arctic dweller 55 Once more

56 All wound up 57 Got some shuteye

59 Candy item in foil 62 Some movie f/x 63 MSNBC

competitor