NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Head of a
monastery
6 ___ Carlo (gambling mecca)
11 Corn on the ___ 14 Dry heat bath
15 Accessory for a
witch
16 Serve up a
whopper
17 Traditional end
of summer
20 Alternative to
Beano
21 Corner pieces in
chess
22 Things bullfighters wave
25 “Othello” villain 27 Dare to exceed
normal limits
33 Swing
clarinetist Shaw 34 Salvador who painted melting watches
35 Most emails offering life insurance policies, say
36 Word after bumper or cable
37 Stray from a
topic
40 Brian who was once with Roxy Music
41 Airport guesses,
for short
43 Alternative to
suspenders
44 Frankly admit
something
46 Fedex or DHL 49 Parts of i’s
and j’s 50 Tilts
51 Hot dog topping 54 Extreme
happiness
56 1967 hit by the Tremeloes suggested by the starts of
17-, 27- and 46-Across
63 Setting for a
couples cruise? 64 ___ Gay (W.W.
II bomber)
65 Bird on the
Mexican flag 66 U.S. airer of “Downton Abbey”
67 Believer in a non-intervening God
68 Many
vaccinations
DOWN
1 Handy way of communicating, in brief? 2 Sound heard in
a herd
3 “Listen, ___!”
4 Musical Yoko
5 Aimed at
6 Degrees for
C.E.O.S
7 “___ and Crake” (Margaret Atwood novel) 8 This very
instant
9 Little piggy
10 Come into view 11 Queen of the
Nile, informally 12 Sound from a
piggy
13 Places for flowers and oysters 18 Sprinkle, as of salt
19 Some menthol cigarettes
22 Organize, as an exhibition
23 Of the stars
24 ___ Beta Kappa 25 Coves and fjords
26 “We try harder” auto rental company
27 Walked nervously back and forth
28 Lawn-cutting tools 29 Before the due date, say
30 What screen doors usually don’t do
31 Freaks out
32 Be overdramatic
38 “Yeah, right!”
39 Recipients of a welcome sight, proverbially
42 Move crabwise 45 State with the words “Wild Wonderful” on its license
plates: Abbr. 47 Said aloud 48 Like the first through fifth
grades: Abbr. 51 Crack and
redden, as lips 52 Basil or dill 53 Ruffles the feathers of
54 Some
toothpastes and hair goops
55 Aspiring atty.’s exam
57 “We’re number
___!” 58 Me, Piggy to Miss 59 Scrooge’s “Phooey!”
60 In the past 61 Diner sandwich, for short 62 “Definitely”