The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Sharp bend 7 Tipping point? 10 Intro course? 13 “Fa-a-ancy!”
14 Heap praise on 16 Home of the Boston Mountains 17 Polite Spanish assent
18 Online fad
19 Pricing word
21 Just the worst, in slang
22 “The time for diplomacy has passed”
24 Women’s soccer and gymnastics powerhouse
25 “___ Blues” (song on the Beatles’ “White Album”) 26 Treatment plants? 28 Letters of qualification 31 Sweet sign-off 32 Trees sacred to Hecate
33 Prey for a heron 34 ___ Poovie (“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” character)
36 Sounds from a pond at night 38 French agreements
39 Stone with “fire” and “water” varieties
43 “Ish”
44 Unspecified ordinal
45 Travelocity spokescreature 46 Make a pick
47 Bird found in the mud?
49 Pea, e.g.
51 “Death of a Salesman” surname
53 It may turn slowly in a horror movie 54 Denny’s competitor
58 “What a pity” 60 Liken
62 Attend to details … or a hint to entering six Down answers in this puzzle
63 Applies, as lotion 64 [Some of us are trying to watch the movie here!] 65 “Success!” 66 Trickled
DOWN
1 Destine for failure 2 Trickle
3 Rock genre for Roxy Music 4 Southern border city in a Larry McMurtry title 5 Game measured by its number of points
6 Elements No. 7, 8, 9 and 10, e.g. 7 Certain martial arts takedown 8 Word after bad or hard 9 ___ monkey 10 Trendy brunch order
11 Benefit
12 Really hope 14 Proportionate size for some model trains
15 It’s a lot to carry 20 Online status
23 1982 film set in a mainframe
25 “It’s not hard to guess how this will end”
27 Key to a quick exit?
29 Shark species with the largest brain-to-body ratio
30 Some E.R. cases 31 Strike
33 Underwater weapon-launching apparatus
34 Horror star Chaney
35 Stop start?
37 2003 cult film known as the “‘Citizen Kane’ of bad movies,” with “The”
40 Spotty pattern 41 Modifies
42 Kind of block 45 Afraid to commit, say
48 Actor Bomer of “Magic Mike” 50 Gets a ride, in a way
51 ’65 Ford debuts 52 “Me! Pick me!” 55 Locking mechanism
56 Great Plains tribe 57 Await a ruling 59 “Isn’t that obvious?”
61 “___ es eso?”