Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Perennial campaign issue 5 Airplane wing feature 9 Cool, giant sun 14 Taken by mouth
15 Sweat spot 16 Remote control
button 17 Grinder 18 Totally focused 19 Brooding worry 20 Big part of the New World 23 It’s pitched with a pitchfork 24 Present oneself
falsely
28 Greek island in
the Aegean Sea 31 Common supply for a party
33 One cause for
an R rating 34 Wagering
venue, briefly 35 Like some
missiles 38 Onetime Volvo
competitor 39 Compromise … or a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s shaded squares 43 Bad temper 44 Flashy 1940s
men’s attire 45 Lead-in to bred or behaved 46 Channel for
“Conan” 49 ___-Caps
(theater candy) 50 Faux ___ 51 Seaside
cookout 54 Fast-food chain with a goateed spokesman 56 Flashing light
phenomenon 61 Ridiculous 64 Pink 65 Humdinger 66 Arms and legs 67 “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,” e.g. 68 10-Down
resident
69 On the nose 70 What’s happening and when, informally 71 Recorded message prompt
Down
1 Donald ___
Trump
2 ___ Blizzard (Dairy Queen offering) 3 Roseanne of
“Roseanne” 4 Animal that hangs upside down in trees 5 Graffiti artist’s tool
6 Rich
soil
7 Big name in beauty products 8 Game craze of the late 1980s and ’90s
9 Falcon rocket
launcher 10 Yemen’s
capital
11 Pull 12 Nativity scene
figure 13 Emeritus:
Abbr. 21 Country to which Frederick Douglass was a U.S. ambassador 22 Natalie Cole’s “___ Got Love on My Mind” 25 Pack, as a car
for travel 26 Napoli’s nation 27 Field where Jackie Robinson played
28 Like the meter in sonnets
29 Ed of “Modern
Family” 30 Popular Belgian beer, for short 32 Fictional tree
creature 36 Carmel finish? 37 Letters on an
AM dial 38 1960s radical
grp.
40 Canon model 41 Tinkered (with) 42 “Knock ___!” 46 Intradermal diagnostic, for short
47 Many a lounge 48 Some tennis
wear
52 “___ Live” (daytime news program) 53 Kindle material 55 B equivalent 57 Salinger
dedicatee 58 Tip of France? 59 Family
60 Idiot box 61 ___-de-France 62 Put the kibosh
on 63 Operator’s
org.?