The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 West Coast law force, for short 5 Insurer whose name rhymes with “quack” 10 Q-tip, e.g.
14 Regions
16 Where the
Dolphins play
17 Prey for cats 18 Characters in a play,
formally
21 Unit of corn
22 Loopy from drugs 23 Some herding dogs 24 Monarch renowned for
his wealth
28 NYC subway inits. 29 Down Under
hoppers, informally 30 Overlook rudely
33 Ice cream treat 36 Veer, as a ship 37 Miracle-___
(garden brand)
38 & 39 Doomsayer’s assertion ... or a phonetic hint to 18-, 24-, 51- and 61-Across 42 Santa ___ winds 43 “How stupid
of me!”
46 More tidy
47 Trail mix
49 Japanese noodle 50 61, in old Rome 51 College team from the land of Lincoln
57 How TV series DVDs
may be sold
59 DNA sequence
60 Gen ___ (millennial
forerunner)
61 Yom Kippur War clash 65 Response from a greatly amused texter 66 Better aligned 67 Goes way, way up 68 Bellow
69 Comic Bruce with a foul mouth 70 Big Board inits.
DOWN
1 Stows, as cargo
2 Pianist Claudio
3 Gem strung on a necklace 4 Beaver’s construction 5 Mexican friend 6 Popular Friday feast 7 Once around the track 8 Soul: Fr.
9 Ringling Brothers offering, once 10 Round-the-campfire
treats
11 Going off script 12 Smoothie “superfruit” 13 “Subjects” of a queen, not a king
15 Like the climate of the African desert
19 Like some auto windows 20 “Like father, like ___” 25 Beach washer 26 Breath-taking snake
27 Specification on an airline ticket 31 Desire
32 Physics Nobelist Niels 33 Without a date
34 “You might think so,
but ...”
35 Grave, as injuries 39 Queued
40 Strictly platonic 41 Hammer’s target
43 Bit of an ellipsis 44 Japanese sash
45 Do a surfing maneuver 48 Glock, for one 49 Jewish village of old 52 Dr. Scholl’s padding 53 Architect Frank
54 No, in pig Latin 55 Comes closer
56 “And Still ___”
(Angelou volume) 57 With competence 58 Uncreative bar
order, with “the” 62 Metal before
refinement
63 When said three times, a Beach Boys hit
64 Charged particle