The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Go over

5 Like the eventual inheritors of the earth, in Matthew

9 Mark of

divinity

13 A G.I. may be

seen in it 14 Actress Fisher of “Wedding Crashers” 15 Brain

connection 16 Like fans who hold season tickets, typically 17 Genre for Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle

19 Rapper ___

Nas X 20 Kissing on the subway, e.g., for short

21 Like some

relationships 22 June

25 Baby fox

26 Bit of Western

neckwear 28 Items on a

checklist

32 One of two sultanates in the United Nations 34 N.B.A. legend nicknamed “Black Mamba” 36 Egg cells 37 U-shaped bike

accessory 38 Last word in an

improv show 40 A rainbow is said to be a good one 41 Beseech 42 Word with high

or seven 43 Reach for the

stars

45 No-frills 47 Things might get swept up in it

49 ___ jeans 51 Early 19thcentury Australia, for one

54 Water tower? 58 Funny one 59 “Funny one!” 60 Intellectual conformity … or a hint to interpreting 17-, 22- and 51-Across 62 Some frills 63 Lay off

64 Net emissions

target

65 Lively, in music: Abbr. 66 “Wabbit”

hunter Elmer 67 One of two sultanates in the United Nations 68 Right-hand page numbers, typically

Down

1 Garden item frequently added to cream cheese 2 World’s fair

sight

3 Great thing to

feel like

4 Signal

agreement 5 Little bit of

power

6 Funds might be

held in this 7 Classic boulevard liners

8 Boat going back and forth? 9 Would really

rather not

10 x, y and

sometimes z 11 Romulus, Remus and the founding of Rome, e.g. 12 Jet-black gem 17 Cheers, boos

and such 18 Strike down 20 + or – thing 23 Brother 24 Boosts,

redundantly 27 Time period, or an anagram of one?

29 Cup holder,

usually 30 “Back to you” 31 Compos

mentis

32 Spill the beans 33 Detective Diaz on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” 35 One reading Kerouac or Ginsberg, say 39 Sleazeball 40 Birthstone after

sapphire 42 Inside info 44 Tiff

46 Filled

(with)

48 Like scouting

patches

50 ___ ball 52 Tums, for one 53 Country

songs? 54 End-of-week

exclamation 55 Language of Pakistan’s Daily Khabrain

56 Top prize 57 “How do you like ___ apples?” 61 Glass who shared the firstever Pulitzer in Audio Journalism 62 Language in which most words are monosyllabic

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