NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Carne ___ (taco
option)
6 Ebbed
11 B’way’s “___
Miz”
14 See 4-Down
15 Backspace
through, say
16 Type
17 Refusing to
understand
19 Org. enforcing
RICO laws
20 Tack on
21 Like Prince William vis-àvis Prince Harry 22 Beg
24 Language from which “bandana” comes
25 Strip sails and
ropes from
27 Put in a movie
role
30 Org. supporting mom-and-pop stores
32 Targets of
cleanses
35 Bothered a lot 37 When a football
might be hiked 39 Through
40 1989 Spike Lee title offering good, if vague, advice
43 Runner’s
midsection?
44 Muchrequested airplane seat
45 Actress Sohn of
“The Wire”
46 Samovar
48 One of football’s Mannings 50 Jennifer who wrote “A Visit From the Goon Squad”
51 Fort ___, N.C. 53 Aliases,
informally
55 Derby cocktail 57 Change
59 ___ page (help
source)
62 Actress de
Armas
63 One of a
résumé pair? 66 To wit: Abbr. 67 Motorola
phones
68 Spanish 101
verb
69 Bit of firefighting equipment
70 Romeo and
Juliet had one 71 Cockpit array
DOWN
1 Actress Jessica
2 Germ
3 Surrounded by
4 With 14-Across, longtime CNN host
5 Rile up
6 Co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. and author of “The Souls of Black Folk”
7 Works in the Galleria degli Uffizi
8 Island nation that’s the world’s smallest republic
9 Certain curve
10 Strong connection, as to one’s land 11 Animating
12 Actor Idris with
an O.B.E.
13 Lose traction
18 Alero or Aurora,
informally
23 Year in the reign
of Nero
24 Six-sided state 26 Abbr. on a
wrapper
27 Air Force Academy student
28 Make amends
(for)
29 Fires up?
31 Relationship of the circled letters to the apt words they connect to in this puzzle
33 “American ___
Warrior”
34 Scientist who said “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark”
36 Rend
38 What’s new?
41 Part of a wedding ceremony
42 Digs up, in a
way
47 Suffix with
architect
49 Store with a one-way route through its cavernous space
52 Like many bridal
veils
54 Like paths of
missiles
55 Language that may be used in 56-Down
56 See 55-Down
58 Much mail:
Abbr.
59 Cheese in a
Greek salad
60 Seriously
uptight
61 Periods in the
N.B.A.: Abbr.
64 It might be
jacked up 65 Forensic abbr.