NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Kids and their
parents
6 Help with a job,
in a way
10 Wanted, but nowhere to be found
14 Nickname for Schwarzenegger or Palmer
15 Winged
chatterbox
16 Deal (with)
17 Hive minders
19 Having trouble
deciding
20 Early-season
farming task
21 C, for one
23 Video chat
disruption
24 Words before “the stars are brightly shining,” in a carol
27 Lute ___, longtime Arizona basketball coach
32 Winged hooter 33 Grind, as one’s
teeth
34 Second-mostvisited website worldwide, after Google
36 Many a Hollywood car crash
38 So as not to
stand out
39 Some South Pacific greetings
42 “Skol!,” in
Sauternes 44 Literally, “on fire”…or, metaphorically, excellent
45 “Three coins” fountain
location
47 Lip
49 Scatter, as
flower petals
50 Drink that
comes with a buzz cut?
53 Gently touch, either forward
or backward
54 Staples of West
African cuisine 55 Frustrate
61 Et ___ (and
others)
63 Entranced … or what one can do by reading the starts of 17-, 24-, 34-, 44and 50-Across in order?
65 Neatnik’s
opposite
66 Palindromic fashion magazine
67 Petulant
68 Line up
69 Ones calling
offsides
70 Garlic squeezer
DOWN
1 Yaks
2 Twistable snack
item
3 From the top
4 First man, in Polynesian creation myth
5 Observed
6 Rock blaster 7 “Ta-ta!”
8 Prepares to get schooled, perhaps
9 Yummilicious
10 Not just sit around daydreaming
11 Just sit around
daydreaming
12 ___ Book Club
13 Yardstick
measurement 18 ___ trip
22 Swamps
25 De-weeder
26 West Coast
burger chain
27 Cries of dismay 28 “Sweet Jane” songwriter
Reed
29 Indented part of
an outline
30 ___ rima (eightline stanza)
31 Invalidate
35 Sch. affiliated with the Latterday Saints
37 Amy who wrote “The Joy Luck Club”
40 Bouncer’s
concern
41 Female hog
43 Ride roughshod
over
44 911 responder 45 QB’S six-pointer 46 In actuality
48 In and of ___
51 Means of tagging in a game
52 Class offered at
many Y.M.C.A.S 56 Baking meas.
57 “That’s ___
business”
58 Workhorse that’s only part horse
59 Tattoo shop
supplies
60 Ice cream brand 62 “American Idol” airer starting in 2018
64 “___ Miz”