Las Vegas Review-Journal

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY ALEXANDER LIEBESKIND

ACROSS

1 Baby’s lightweigh­t garment with snaps

7 Baby’s dribble catcher

10 Bottom-row PC key

14 Kind of cuisine with kimchi

15 Mine cart filler

16 Length x width, for a rectangle

17 Two ingredient drink order

19 Convent residents

20 Med school subj.

21 Use a chair

22 2016 Denzel Washington/ Viola Davis film whose title refers to real and metaphoric­al barriers

24 Distinctiv­e effect of paint applied to a canvas

27 Meryl with eight Golden Globes

30 Bakery treats that are sweeter than their name suggests

31 ___ Suárez, tennis star with eight Grand Slam doubles titles

32 Grp. with many Mideast members

34 Atlanta-based network

37 How-to manual

41 China’s Mao ___-tung

42 Tilt sideways

43 “___-daisy!”

44 Regional flora and fauna

47 “If wishes were ___, beggars would ride”

48 Recurring comical reference

51 “… and the ___ to know the difference” (end of the Serenity Prayer)

52 Go bad

53 Pageant accessory

57 Tennis great Arthur

58 Query of concern … or a phonetic hint to two pairs of letters appearing in 17-, 24-,

37- and 48-Across

61 Sharp-witted

62 Bit of body ink

63 Under considerat­ion

64 Once, once

65 H, in the Greek alphabet

66 One whose property is being held as debt security

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1 Pod vegetable in gumbo

2 Part of speech that might be “proper”

3 ___ Franklin (gospel-singing sister of Aretha)

4 Icon that lights up during a turbulent plane ride

5 Writer Fleming 6 Finishes

7 Diner seating option

8 Vex

9 Meaty Mexican dish

10 Lacks what it takes

11 Service centers for big rigs

12 Zellweger who played Judy Garland in 2019’s “Judy”

13 Glasgow gal

18 Counterpar­t of trans, in gender identity terminolog­y

23 Blunder

25 Caboose’s place

26 Poet Gertrude

27 Spinning skewer

28 Spends some time in the sun, maybe

29 Thorny sources of pride for a gardener

32 Atlantic or Pacific

33 Scholastic book fair org.

35 Big audio equipment brand

36 “The ___ the limit”

38 Frisbee sport

39 Cozy spot

40 Yawn-inducing

45 Use a tab key, say

46 Musician Yoko

47 What French fries fry in

48 Staircase part

49 Environmen­tal activist Thunberg

50 Delight

51 Boat’s trail

54 Similar (to)

55 Reasonable

56 Park name in London and Chicago

59 Tell (on)

60 Informal term for college, in Great Britain

 ?? ??

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