NY Times Puzzle No. 0206
ACROSS
1 Book after
II Chronicles
5 Stone on a set
9 Heat almost to the point of boiling
14 Bad person to
trust
15 Close at hand
16 Actress Shire of
“Rocky”
17 *Large container for cinnamon or coriander?
19 Sign up for, as a
contest
20 Good qualities
21 *Gist of a Dear
John letter?
23 Able is he and he
is Elba
25 Depend (on)
26 Number for John Tyler (or Alexander Hamilton)
28 Tiny matter? 30 Place back on
the market, say
34 Not yet up
36 Laundry unit
38 Pot starter
39 *Play
matchmaker?
42 Lose steam
43 Cookie in a Dairy
Queen Blizzard
44 Perfect
45 Seasonal workers
in red suits
47 Recovers some
yards?
49 Deal that protects company secrets, for short
50 Midmonth date
52 Boneless steakhouse order
54 *Tinkling racket
on a windy day?
58 Jog the memory
of
61
62
64
65
66
Positive Instagram responses
Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues
Unconcealed Grp. that Qatar left in 2019
Rapper Wyclef
67 Pick on, in a way
68
69
On deck
Analogy words
DOWN
1 Woman’s name that’s also the first four letters of a Central American country name
2 Closes, as a fly
3 Kellogg’s cereal
with a purple box
4 Followed a
curved path
5 Breaks off a
relationship
6 Lead-in to maid
or man
7 Viciously attack
8 Brink’s truck
feature
9 1980s TV role for
Brosnan
10 Game with Lollipop Woods and Gumdrop Mountains
11 Kind of sax
12 Lender’s security
13 Have the courage
PUZZLE BY VICTOR BAROCAS
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24
26
Online financial company
“Il Trovatore” composer
Like some panels and flares
Dust-ups
27 “___ Holmes” (streaming film about Sherlock’s sister)
29
31
Earthworm hunters
Deal sweeteners
32 Stand in good
___
33
35
Automaker with a Cybertruck
Kitchen counters?
37 Standoffish
40
Gave a shot, say
41 Designed with
passageways
46 “___ Fideles”
48 To the point
51 “Simple” nursery
rhyme character 53 Nontext component of a text
54 Form lumps
55 Bee complex
56 Retail giant whose first store opened in Älmhult, Sweden
57 “Uh-uh”
59 Lacking clutter
60 Foe of Mr. Bond
63 Cause trouble for