NY Times Puzzle No. 0221
ACROSS
1 Something a
student may cut
6 Doesn’t bother
12 Team V.I.P.s
15 Author of “The Eagle and the Fox” and “The Fox and the Lion”
16 Where to watch the Lightning and Hurricanes
17 Porridge grain
18 Region that spans about 8% of the earth’s land area [Arabic]
20 Attempt
21 Rodin sculpture featuring a couple whose lips don’t quite touch
22 “My Gal ___”
23 Fencing option
24 Addams family
cousin
25 Body of water bordering Nevada and California [Washoe] 27 Actor McGregor
30 Biological
molecule
32 Days past
33 Shakespearean
fairy queen
34 Playground retort
37 Electricity bill
datum
40 Landmark on which most U.S. radio stations base the starts of their call signs, with “W” on the east and
“K” on the west [Algonquin]
43 Together (with)
44 Clay targets,
informally
45 Official language
of Ghana: Abbr.
46 Certain mattress
material
48 Commonly torn
band, for short
49 Excited about
50 Nation that shares an island with part of Indonesia [Indonesian] 54 Fall behind
56 Takes home
57 Governor DeSantis
58 Commercial
spaces in an app
62 “Mud”
63 Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50- Across vis-àvis the bracketed languages
65 Undivided
66 Look away from
67 Wombs
68 Big fashion inits.
69 Some downtown
street liners
70 Start over
Dramatis personae portrayers
Actress and documentarian Remini
Arthur of the court Be absorbed, as a marinade
5 Pole that extends
a sail
6 Fellows
7 Prior to, in poetry
8 ___ Virtue, threetime world ice dancing champion
9 Sly sort
10 Grain in some
hearty soup
11 Is French?
12 What all good children do, in a nursery rhyme
13 Penguins great
Lemieux
14 Do, as hair
19 First M.L.B. team to use artificial turf in its stadium
23 Persian language
1
2
3 4
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25
26 They might be
guided
27
28
29 What some workout videos promise
31
34
Eye-opening experience?
___ Raducanu, 2021 U.S. Open women’s tennis champion
Cry out
Loch ___
Investigate persistently
35 Ape’s weapon in “Planet of the Apes”
36 International oil
grp.
38 Fellow
39 Therefore
41 Little brats
42 “That’s sufficient,
guess”
47 It’s just an illusion
49 Take a lighter to
50 “Have fun!”
51 Long, long times
52 Get on 53 How ballerinas
often perform
55 Fortune tell
58 Some pub brews
59 Freezes (over)
I 60 Scale button
61 Thin cut
63 Cook with a long
history at Apple
64