Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Prepared, with “up”
7 Snake in ancient Egyptian art
10 Crowdsourced map app
14 Final syllable of a word, in linguistics
15 Singer Rawls
16 Wide-eyed with
wonder
17 Oxymoronic stage name for the D.J. Norman Cook
19 Puddlejumper?
20 “Phooey!,” to Shakespeare
21 Frontiersman Wyatt
22 Admit, with “up”
23 Rashida Jones’s role on “Parks and Recreation”
25 Unquestioning followers, in slang
27 First three words famously said by Kamala Harris to Joe Biden upon winning the 2020 election
30 Gradually increased
33 Hard-to-find game cards, in collector’s lingo
35 “Am I the problem here?”
36 Reverberate 39 In ___ words
41 Sound likely not made by a Tyrannosaurus rex, despite what “Jurassic Park” would have you believe
42 Welcomed at the door
44 Streaming service rebranded with the suffix Max in 2020
46 Fragrance
48 Singularity
52 Gentleman: Sp.
54 “The Simpsons” storekeeper
55 Vodka brand that sounds like a toast
57 Reassuring words after a fall
58 ___ Jose, Calif.
59 “Ple-e-e-ease?”
60 Ones with minority views
64 Oodles
65 Before, poetically
66 Act as a gobetween
67 Icy hazard at sea
68 When doubled, a 2010s dance fad
69 Object represented visually twice in this puzzle
Down
1 Belly laugh
2 Julia LouisDreyfus role on “Seinfeld”
3 Go to
4 ___-eye steak
5 Punk offshoot
6 Word with latter or redletter
7 Deity of Islam
8 Fancy evening party
9 Lifted weights, informally
10 Breakfast appliance
11 Shook on
12 Places where you might find okapis and gnus (besides crossword puzzles!)
13 ___ Benedict
18 Six-line stanza
24 Vaccine approver, in brief
26 Newspaper parts: Abbr.
28 Debris from welding or power drilling
29 Heavy metal band whose name includes an actual heavy metal
31 Actress Thurman
32 According to
34 Movie theater reproof
36 Mentalist’s power
37 Third letter in an alphabet song
38 Judge Judy title
40 Kindle purchases
43 Birth control option, for short
45 “I hadn’t thought of it that way”
47 New York city where Mark Twain is buried
49 Enter gingerly, as a hot tub
50 Few and far
between 51 Slowly phase out, in lingo
53 “Look for yourself”
55 It may cover a cut
56 Feminist Millett who popularized the concept of the patriarchy
61 Stately tree
62 Actress Long
63 @, as a verb