Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
This puzzle is a collaboration by the basketball-loving senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana, working together with longtime crossword contributor Michael S. (Mickey) Maurer, the owner of the Indianapolis Business Journal. This is Mickey’s 25th crossword for The Times. More information about the making of today’s puzzle appears in the Times’s daily crossword column (nytimes.com/ column/wordplay).
Across
1 Exchange of
words 7 Smart farm
animal? 14 Chevrolet
model 15 Warningduring aheist?
16 Washes against, as the shore
17 In baroque
fashion 18 Gutterball?
20 Afternoon
social 21 Pigeon-___ 22 Filler ads, in
brief 24 Korean border
area, for short 27 Sinus doc 28 Yukon or Sierra 30 Opening word at many a conference 33 Eric of old CBS
News
36 Flipped
(through) 37 Dinnerat theendof Ramadan?
39 Where
Socrates lived 42 Artists’ oil
sources
46 Like Times Square on New Year’s Eve 48 Diet of Jack
Sprat’s wife 49 “Doesn’t
excite me” 50 Spanish
uncle
51 Elite team
member 53 Bowery boozer 54 “The Spy Who
Loved Me” org. 57 Rugstore promotion?
60 Pacifies 63 Establish 64 Something bleepedoutfor television? 65 Successful
batter 66 Knocked over 67 Think about
only one thing
Down
1 Works with
pupils?
2 “No one’s with
me”
3 Digital media player that’s “big” in New York City? 4 Operated on, as
the eyes 5 Beauty product line with the slogan “Ageless”
6 Cat, to Catarina 7 Site of a 1955
“Pact” 8 Comfort ___ 9 32-card card
game
10 Punta del ___ (Uruguayan resort) 11 Leading
12 Fa follower 13 Home on a
farm
15 Noggin
knocks 19 Footnote
abbr. 23 Jennifer Lopez
title role
25 ___ Tussaud:
Abbr.
26 The end of the British monarchy? 28 Thou
29 Things babies
make
31 ___ of one’s
worries
32 One might say “Happy Birthday” 34 Not many 35 Two-bagger:
Abbr.
38 Part of N.R.A. 39 SAT alternative 40 Numerical
prefix 41 Has a one-night stand, say 43 Abu Dhabi,
for one 44 Signifies
45 An ejected player might be sent to them
47 Protect against the other team scoring
52 The end of the British monarchy? 53 Sharpens 55 More than a sip 56 Spalding or
Voit product 58 Bounce off
the wall 59 Chicago daily,
informally 60 Back, on
a ship
61 Great Lakes’
___ Canals 62 Bestow, to
Burns