NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Website
overseer
6 Spanish for
“sweet”
11 Former N.Y.C.
mayor Beame 14 Like soil that combines sand, silt and clay
15 AAA part: Abbr. 16 Turpentine
ingredient
17 [Birds] + [Bees] = P.R. campaign goal
19 Contraction that
drops an “i”
20 “A,” on a
timeline
21 Put down
22 Response to a
doubter
24 Neat analogy? 26 [Lightsaber] + [Impatient fingers] = Boring
27 Painter’s kit
28 Half of a 1960s
folk rock group 29 P.o.’ed
30 Go-___
31 Common prom
coif
35 Tail … or one
with a tail
36 [Cellphone] + [Bubble] = Edible accessory
39 Far from
fastidious
40 Blown away
42 Fictional business on TV frequently targeted by prank calls
43 Hold forth 45 Tests that are very hard to cheat on
47 “___ noches!” 48 [Cow] + [Thunder] = Snake eyes, e.g. 51 Apollo Theater’s
locale
52 Word with party
or balloon
53 Be struggling,
say
54 Grammy winner
India.___
56 Rep. Cheney of
Wyoming
57 Academy Awards category eliminated in 2021 … or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle
60 It’s often included in a good deal
61 Private student 62 Watch it!
63 Former Chinese
premier Jiabao 64 Keeps thinking
“Grrrr!”
65 Hägar the Horrible’s pooch
DOWN
1 Acqua ___ (cause of annual flooding in Venice)
2 A key to what’s
underneath?
3 Prime spot at a
music festival
4 “My parents are
gonna kill me!” 5 Winner of over 125 Pulitzer Prizes, for short 6 Bobby who sang “Mack the Knife”
7 Many flash drives, familiarly
8 Sch. in Baton
Rouge
9 Ingratiate
oneself with
10 Skin malady
11 Up and about
12 Major Chinese internet company
13 ___ salts
18 Copy-right?
23 Calif. school that’s about 20 miles from the Mexican border 25 Colleague
26 Dwells
tiresomely (on) 27 Verdi opera
28 Flips (through) 30 Small hill
32 United way?
33 Worker searching for patterns in the statistical noise
34 Dumb ___
(buffoons)
37 Shopkeeper’s “Sorry, none left”
38 Decant
41 Place to live and
learn
44 Pregnancy
hormone
46 Certain tributes (although they may not seem like them)
47 Great relief
48 Legal drama with Jimmy Smits
49 Temporarily
suspended
50 Shrivel from age 51 Goes
underground
53 From the start 55 Performer’s grand slam, in modern parlance
58 Sport ___ (allterrain vehicle) 59 O.R. lines