The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Those out for blood?
9 Geographical anagram of BOGOTA
15 “Supposedly”
16 Sustainable engineering field, informally
18 What Minnesota and Michigan are part of, but not Missouri
20 Writing of Horace
21 It has a ring of 12 gold stars on a blue background, for short
22 Nas’s third studio album, after “Illmatic” and “It Was Written”
23 “Ah” follower
24 Get in trouble, perhaps
25 Chucklehead
26 Obergefell v. ___, landmark Supreme Court decision of 2015
28 Article go-with
30 Go back
31 What a motorist often screws up?
35 Stations
39 Reference work in the public domain that’s updated weekly
42 K, for Kay
43 Flash sale comeon
44 CBS series with a “Most Wanted” spinoff
45 “My!”
47 Hit list
49 Lead-in to ed. or prof.
52 Broad views 56 Stiletto feature
57 Many people do this on January 1
58 Train workers? 59 Wheat variety for a grain bowl
60 Web master, with “the”
63 Colon’s place, familiarly
64 It begins “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly”
65 “Nevertheless ...”
66 Pipit lookalikes
DOWN
1 Emotional assessment of one’s surroundings, in lingo
2 Unlikely trait for a beekeeper
3 Snickers alternative
4 Pluto, famously
5 “Ah” follower
6 With 55-Down, gamble
7 Host
8 Capital known as Keijo before the 1940s
9 Bit of nonstick cookware
10 Expanse on a Spanish explorer’s map
11 “Star Trek” species
12 Greatly enjoyed, with “up”
13 Spirits that come in bottles
14 Razor name?
17 Biodegradable bag material
19 Rams home?
24 “A Life for the ___” (Mikhail Glinka opera) 25 Person who comes across as toplofty
27 Achievements for Jennifer Hudson and Whoopi Goldberg, in brief
29 Winning by a basket, say
32 Bringing down the house
33 Org. with guidelines
34 Where the coxswain sits
36 Some lightweight protection
37 “In all honesty ...”
38 Range on a cosmetics chart
40 “___ … what?”
41 Destinations for many retiring soldiers
46 Get recompense for
48 Drug trade?
49 ___ stage (concept in psychosexual development)
50 Where “talofa” and “tofa” mean “hello” and “goodbye”
51 Induce
53 Sides of a square, maybe: Abbr.
54 Longtime name in baseball cards
55 See 6-Down
58 Like swampland
59 Cut down
61 End of a series in Canada
62 “What a ___!”