NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Completely enthralled
5 Cry at the end of the workweek 9 Police dept. alerts
13 Purple smoothie fruit
14 Used a loom 15 “Don’t ___ the small stuff” 16 *Amorous cartoon skunk 18 Towel material 19 Pioneering journalist ___ B. Wells
20 Cupid’s Greek counterpart
21 Central position 22 Home project inits.
23 Boxing ruling, for short
24 [I’m cracking up as I type this!] 25 Historic period 27 Secret supply 29 *Impartial court proceeding guaranteed by the Constitution 32 Rocket launch site
34 Family guy
35 Ice cream brand 36 What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed
39 Poetic tributes
41 Phillipa of
“Hamilton”
42 “Gnarly!”
43 *”Just a sec!”
46 Their are too in this clue 50 Source of hardwood
51 Bud
52 Musical set in Oz, with “The”
54 Regret
55 Relating to the bottom layer 57 Numbers game 58 And so on: Abbr.
59 Zsa Zsa or
Eva of old Hollywood 60 *Short-lived store event 62 Two-way, as doors
63 Hockey feint 64 Something people trip on 65 Hershey toffee bar
66 Take five 67 “What fun!”
DOWN
1 Dangerous (and thrilling!) part of a river, to canoeists 2 Nailed the exam 3 Orange smoothie fruit 4 50-50, e.g. 5 Bounce one’s booty on the dance floor 6 Disappear like magic
7 St. ___ (skin care brand) 8 Hardly any
9 Wonderstruck 10 Summer meteor shower
11 *Platter used to carry glassware 12 Pig’s place 15 It helps a clown stand tall
17 “___ Weapon” (buddy cop film)
21 Sauron’s realm in “The Lord of the Rings” 24 “A ___ ought to have a good memory”: Quintilian
26 Gore and
Green, for two 28 Involuntary muscle contraction
30 Bonus
31 Thin, as a voice 33 Dreary
36 Game that involves covering one’s eyes
37 Christmas
38 Bread at a seder 39 Winning tictac-toe line 40 *Repository of genetic material
44 Images that give the illusion of movement 45 Fine-tunes 47 What ministers do
48 Extend beyond 49 Withdraw formally
53 Map enlargement
56 ___ Patch Kids (gummy candy) 57 Bauhaus artist Paul
59 Dog tag wearers, in brief 60 First president to appear on television, familiarly 61 Lumberjack’s tool