NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Timbuktu’s
country
5 Things baseball uniforms and toy pistols have
9 Foe in “Jack and
the Beanstalk”
14 “Sign me up!”
15 Put on the
payroll
16 Put a stop to
17 *Many a Silicon
Valley business
20 Televangelist
Joel
21 Automotive brand with an oval logo
22 Some HDTVS
23 Africa’s most populous city (21+ million)
25 Biased against
seniors
27 Doctors making deliveries, in brief
30 California ___ (state flag words)
32 Sweet’s
counterpart
34 Hatcher of “Desperate Housewives”
35 Dandy
39 *Devastating event in a real estate bust
42 Automotive brand with an oval logo
43 South American palm cultivated for its fruit
44 Flair
45 Royal spouses
48 Records in
jackets, in brief 49 Actress
Anderson
52 Passing
remarks?
54 Tennis score favoring the server
55 Toll hwy.
57 Classic 1980s space warfare video game
61 *Question suggesting “That just about sums things up”
64 Eminent
65 Sportscaster
Andrews
66 Tony-winning musical based on Fellini’s “81/2”
67 Battle
reminders
68 “Hey, over
here!”
69 Elements in a comic’s repertoire
DOWN
1 Sushi restaurant
soup
2 “Famous”
cookie maker
3 Elevator, in
England
4 Info from a spy
5 Replace with
6 Tire need
7 *Highly stressful situations, metaphorically
8 Quakers, for
one
9 “Columbia, the ___ of the Ocean”
10 *Like a guesstimate, by nature 11 Counters with
beads
12 Grannies
13 Meeting at a no
tell motel, say
18 Potential tire
trouble
19 October
birthstone
24 “The Bartered Bride” and “The Marriage of Figaro”
26 Heisman winner
Torretta
27 Workplace
inspecting org.
28 Bust’s
counterpart
29 Wrestler in a
mawashi
31 Tummy soother
33 Community sports facility … or a hint to the answers to the five starred clues
36 Like the
Rose Bowl, with 92,542 spectators
37 Mouth, slangily 01/05/2021
38 Desires
40 April 1 target
41 Person in a
lawsuit
46 Alliance formed
in April 1949
47 Ollie’s partner
in old comedy
49 Half the pieces
in a chess set
50 Formed for a particular purpose
51 Sporty Mazda
model
53 Singapore ___
56 Get ready
58 Singapore
setting
59 Squad
60 Supporting
votes
62 Some essential workers, for short
63 Prefix with
gender