Daily News (Los Angeles)

The New York Times Crossword

- By David Distenfeld Edited by Will Shortz No. 0527

ACROSS

1 Lures into a relationsh­ip by using a fictional online persona 10 Occasion for a high flute?

15 Like households with stay-at-home spouses, typically 16 Like many spiral notebooks

17 It may be taken for dramatic effect

18 World record holder?

19 “Do the Right Thing” pizzeria 20 Get around

22 Giant mfr. of industrial machinery

15, e.g.

27 Hawaiian chorus 30 ___ job

31 Onboardee

33 Follower of many state names 34 Really dry

36 Season ticket holder, maybe 38 Pond blossom 40 Rockets can be found in it, in brief 41 Infiltrate­s

42 Dealing with technical details, say

45 Blowout

46 Put away

47 Herbal infusions 49 Do-over

50 “Psycho” psycho 52 First name in gossip

53 Some SAT takers 54 Not be completely accurate with 56 Spanish key

58 Kind of cake with layers of coffee and chocolate 60 Where to find 55 and over? 65 Resource in the game Catan

66 Film technique that accommodat­es wide- and fullscreen display

67 Act crabby? 68 Parents obsessed with play dates?

DOWN

1 Mustard, for one: Abbr.

2 “Is that ___?” 3 Start of a count 4 Some pudding ingredient­s 5 Hurting

6 Like the milk in café au lait, sometimes 7 Improbable orders for oenophiles 8 Myanmar has two of them

9 Matches

10 They’re used during film production and promotion

11 The one in “Layla” lasts 3 minutes 48 seconds

12 Mixed emotions, so to speak 13 Jacques Cousteau’s milieu

14 Parts of some bowls, in brief 21 Journalist Swisher 22 Dressing option 23 Home of the largest street fair in North America 24 Modern-day scroll, of a sort 26 Mama grizzly

28 Item to pack for a trip abroad

29 Down times? 32 “Really? Wow!” 35 “Thanks, Captain Obvious” 37 Telephone trio

39 Prepared to end an engagement 43 Buffalo ___ 44 Picking up

48 Oscar Wilde tragedy

51 Many a work by the artist Banksy 55 Mythical archer 57 Driver in Hollywood 58 Reactions to strikes?

59 Letter after upsilon

61 Suitable

62 “Was ___ blame?”

63 Source of withdrawal? 64 Article in a French newspaper

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