The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Green spot in a city
5 Top dog
10 ___ threat
14 Monopoly token replaced by a cat in 2013
15 Like the boondocks
16 “… ___ the twain
shall meet”
17 Group of winners at a film awards show?
19 Reminder of a past
injury
20 Discharges
21 Not real royals,
maybe
23 Executed, as a
program
24 Team ___
26 Something to take
up or let out
27 Target for William
Tell?
33 Singing Crow
36 Cause of some
breathing problems
37 F-, for one
38 Command-C, on a
Mac
39 Turn into a film, e.g.
41 To boot
42 Comedian Wong
43 Personification of Earth, in Greek myth
44 Tiny parts of
archipelagoes
46 Where séance leaders get their degrees?
49 Unfinished crusade of the 1970s, in brief 50 Inning : baseball ::
___ : curling
51 Eggs in a lab
54 Art of bone carving
59 Green spot in a
desert
61 Actors who don’t play their roles subtly
62 Lo-o-ong lecture
from a parent?
64 Early Ron Howard
role
65 “_ _ _ you a little short for a stormtrooper?”: Princess Leia
66 Do more than just
check out
67 Fling
68 The Rockies, e.g.
69 Drink from a
Viking’s goblet
DOWN
1 Itinerant musician
with a flute
2 Patisserie allure
3 “The Kiss” sculptor
4 Heal, as a broken
bone
5 Word after long or
strong
6 One-named ancient satirist … or a Pokémon character
7 Baby buggy in
Piccadilly Circus
8 Hinged bit of
hardware
9 Cher, voicewise
10 Part of a foot
11 Convert into a higher-level language, as computer code
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12 King of English
theater
13 Muffs
18 Crime of great
interest
22 Carpet type
25 Arabic “peace”
27 Alan Paton’s “___, the Beloved Country”
28 Oscar ___, player of Poe Dameron in “Star Wars” films
29 One who calls
people out
30 Statement to a
chair of a meeting
31 In need of
directions
32 Grandson of Adam
and Eve
33 Almost every getrich-quick scheme
34 Spot in a green
35 Outer layer of skin
40 Throw shade at
41 Monopolist’s
portion
43 Territory ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1898
45 Vice city
47 Van Gogh work that in 1987 became the most expensive painting ever sold
48 Chopping
51 ___ orange
52 Home on the
Riviera, say
53 Didn’t contain one’s
curiosity
54 Attempt
55 Aria da ___
56 Symbol on an “8”
key
57 Juno’s Greek
counterpart
58 Mideast’s Gulf of
___
60 Itsy-bitsy bit
63 Tribe for which the
45th state is named