Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Children’s ball
game
6 “Wake Me Up Before You GoGo” band 10 Prefix with
-logical 15 Plants cultivated for their sap 16 “Hey there” 17 Shown, as
teeth 18 Request for aid
in East Africa? 21 Suit 22 Resident’s
suffix
23 Ones with X-Genes, in comics 24 Figure on the top of Paris’s Notre-Dame 26 Hoosier
hoopsters 27 Call for cleanup in the Persian Gulf?
31 Uses cross
hairs
34 “Traffic Crossing ___ Bridge” (pioneering 1888 moving picture) 35 Always, to
Shakespeare 36 Berate 38 Turkish
title
39 Cut down 42 Sale tag abbr. 43 Word before
school or class 45 Chem. unit 46 Virus carried by
fruit bats
48 To be, to
Augustus 49 Slogan for a West African airline? 52 Shaman, e.g. 54 Smelting
residue 55 Having a
corner piece? 57 Southwest sch. with an enrollment of over 70,000 58 “The ___ of
Horace” 62 Entreaty for a spouse’s emigration to Central America? 65 Bowl 66 “Perhaps” 67 No-frills 68 Domineering 69 “An Inconvenient Truth” narrator 70 Church council
Down
1 Hunky-dory 2 Three-time N.H.L. M.V.P. Ovechkin 3 Roadwork
indicator
4 Door opener
5 It has its benefits: Abbr. 6 Toothpaste
ingredient 7 Queen’s
residence
8 Yes, on board 9 Who shouldn’t “let your babies grow up to be cowboys,” in a 1978 #1 country song 10 Let up
11 Arid 12 Segue
13 Let
14 One in a
million, e.g. 19 Supermodel
Hadid
20 Game played
with 24 cards 25 Kind of spray 26 “My fault” 27 Subject of
finger-pointing 28 Shield of
Athena 29 Wordless
denials
30 ___ Republic, state toppled in 1933
32 ___ Thomas, entertainer with a Presidential Medal of Freedom 33 Tatami material 37 Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns 40 “St. Elsewhere” actor
Ed ___ Jr. 41 Peter Falk
feature 44 Intensifies 47 “Great
Scott!”
50 Harry Potter’s
owl
51 Mess up 53 Cosmetics brand owned by Revlon 55 Attempt
56 Poi source 57 Light-years
away 59 Anthropologist
Fossey 60 Opera singer Pinza
61 Email button 63 “I think,” in
texts
64 Short albums,
for short