NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Part of a relay
race
4 Book after the
Gospels
8 Blows one’s top
14 Some of its members wear P.P.E.
15 Lava, e.g.
16 Be in favor of
17 *Having
panache
19 Computer
accessory
20 Feeling ready
for bed
21 Neighbor of an
Arkansawyer
23 Eastern “way”
24 Dublin’s land, to
natives
25 *Trinket
28 File of
documents
31 Fish-eating bird
32 Awards for ad
agencies
34 Equipment for
pentathletes
35 *State that many people want to get to on vacation?
40 Unadventurous
41 Hang
42 Hundredths of
a peso
45 Tusked marine creature of the Arctic
50 *Gaudy display
52 Move like
molasses 53 “Hometown proud” supermarket chain
54 Rob of “St.
Elmo’s Fire”
55 Carrier of sweatpants and sneakers
57 Everglades
mammal
60 Game in which the answers to the starred clues are legal plays but cannot be formed even if you have both blanks
62 Difficult
situations
63 Cake layer
64 Poet’s nightfall
65 Puts on the
schedule
66 Action that may
be “contagious”
67 Dejected
DOWN
1 Ran out, as a
subscription
2 Estevez of “St.
Elmo’s Fire”
3 Crystal ___ (some prognosticators)
4 Letters of
urgency
5 Warm and snug
6 Looney Tunes
nickname
7 Watch
surreptitiously
8 California’s
motto 9 Tech school in
Troy, N.Y.
10 Airer of TV’S “Moesha” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
11 Thick soups
12 Thick syrups
13 Four, on a par
4 hole
16 Paprika or
pepper
18 Snoring symbols
22 Face, in slang
25 ___ Jenner, Kardashian family matriarch
26 More eager
27 Back of the neck
29 Cold weather
roofing problem
30 Golfer Ernie
33 Adage
35 Glass-___
(1933 banking legislation, informally)
36 Home of Dar es
Salaam 37 Cracker name
since 1934
38 “S.N.L.” alum
Horatio
39 Place for a mud
bath
40 Economizes
43 Drivers who rarely have passengers
44 Some Siouan
speakers
46 Gestation
station?
47 Paper tiger?
48 Georgia’s state
wildflower
49 Bigfoot or yeti
51 Having some
kick
55 Got bigger
56 Kitten’s
plaything
58 T.S.A. employee, e.g.: Abbr.
59&61 Org. once headed by George H. W. Bush