NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Needing some
kneading, say
5 Language in which a nutty person might be told “Yer bum’s oot the windae”
10 Hunting store
purchase
14 Hook’s
henchman
15 Stamp holder
16 Birthday ___
17 Basic idea
18 Items that are hard to throw away?
20 Remedy
22 Troublemaker
of 1-Down
23 Important piece
in échecs
24 Moneycollecting org.
25 Word included to prevent libel, say
28 Rough write-up
30 Ballet basic
31 Losing tic-tactoe row
32 Cry of dismay in
5-Across
34 Singer/ songwriter Corinne Bailey ___
35 Landed
36 Work suggested by this puzzle’s circled and shaded squares
41 Strongly
advocate
42 -: Abbr.
43 One of the
Kennedys
44 Pudding flavor 45 Big name in inflight internet
46 ___ Nadu
(Indian state)
50 America ___, star of TV’S “Ugly Betty”
52 Extinct
flightless bird
54 Lead-in to
puncture
55 Actress Chaplin
56 Like an unused
air mattress
58 That’s gnus to
me!
61 Shortcoming
62 Word before
rich or talk
63 Rent
64 Swiss Alp next
to Lake Lucerne
65 Just OK
66 Small and pointy-eared, perhaps
67 What “exaggerated” is sometimes misspelled with
DOWN
1 Mythical realm accessible only by the rainbow bridge Bifrost
2 Key to this
puzzle’s theme?
3 Greek goddess
of the hearth
4 Sight on
Disney World’s Expedition Everest ride
5 Flavor: Sp.
6 Sticks together
7 Instrument featured in 36-Across
8 Rum ___ Tugger
(“Cats” cat)
9 Most foul
10 Up
11 Puttering
around?
12 Flavor enhancer
13 Exclamations of
surprise
19 Credit line?
21 Leave behind
25 ___ Freed, early radio personality who coined the term “rock ’n’ roll”
26 It takes people
out
27 Biblical verb
29 What the opening motif of 36-Across is said to represent
30 Response to
“Grazie!”
33 Epithet for a
judge
35 Lover of Radames, in opera
36 Muscly
37 Tribe that fought the Iroquois
38 Servings with sweet-and-sour sauce
39 Summer
Triangle star
40 ___ position
45 Something editable using CRISPR technology
47 Oscar winner
Marlee
48 Cooling-off
period?
49 First name of this puzzle’s dedicatee, born December 1770
51 Copland ballet
with a hoedown
52 Longtime star of
F.C. Barcelona
53 A lot
56 What 49-Down became in later life
57 Prefix with
Cuban
58 Ill. neighbor
59 Formal “yes”
60 Reef predator