NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 ___ no good
4 Shelfmate of Chips Ahoy! and Oreo
9 Actor Abe
14 Give quite a shock
15 Bolt at great speed?
16 Notify
17 Group in a roundup 18 Knowledgeable, with “in”
19 Hit film whose narrator humorously remarks “Thanks to [her], all problems of feminism and equal rights have been solved”
20 Did some metalworking on
22 French automaker
23 Tent with smoke flaps, in an anglicized spelling 24 Derbies, e.g. 26 Longtime sneakers brand 27 Column style 29 Hasn’t been hoodwinked by 31 ___ Claus
32 Food regimens 34 Counterfeit coins
38 Senate majority leader during most of Obama’s presidency
40 Pyramid ___
42 Space chimp of
1961
43 One hanging around a kennel?
45 Britain’s historic Lady ___ 46 Broadway’s ___-Manuel Miranda 47 Egyptian temple site
49 Bother
52 “___ a fool not to!”
55 Insurance or tax figures 56 California o Nueva York 58 Certain volleyball players
60 It has reading assignments 62 “Yoo-hoo! This way!”
63 Modernday sort of provocateur 65 Golfer’s target 66 Equally quickly 67 What’s found in the center of a prune?
68 Prefix with -scopy 69 High-end fashion house 70 End notes?
71 Like a quilt
DOWN
8 “What happened next?” 9 Musicians that play with mallets
10 ___ the kill
11 Risk it all
12 Partner of cut
13 Religious
agreements?
21 ___ Lingus
22 100 yrs.
24 Make things more interesting 25 Hearst mag 28 Round items in square cases 30 Flamenco dancer’s cry 31 Internal review, for short? 33 “Sorry, my schedule’s packed”
35 Opens, as some doors
36 Ditch assistance
37 You might provide the “last four” of this, in brief
39 Territory divided into two states: Abbr. 41 How English poets wrote previously? 44 Top-floor spaces
48 Univ. staffers 50 Greek god of the winds 51 Finger-wagging accompaniment
52 Basketball great Thomas 53 Mentally slow 54 Risk it all 57 Gamble boldly, inaway…or a hint to the answers to this puzzle’s italicized clues 59 Language akin to Manx
60 Get tight (with) 61 Apparel competitor of Playtex
63 Special attention, in brief
64 Critter that grows by leaps and bounds?