The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 One or two chips, maybe
5 Airer of NCAA March Madness games 8 Choctaw and Chickasaw 14 “Here’s the ___ ...” 15 Promise-to-pay note 16 Flower cluster whose name can also be read as a challenge 17 Deceive
18 Bulletin
20 Mob-busting law, for
short
22 Get exactly 23 Single-minded religious
group
24 Dental problem
26 Remini who co-starred on “The King of Queens” 27 Tax table figure 28 “Beau ___” 29 Romanov leader 30 Make tweaks to 35 Newsman Koppel 36 Nickname
39 “Life of Pi” director Lee 42 Ancestral ruler
43 Big tubs
47 Hired toughs 49 Elevated platforms for speakers
51 Big name in petrol 52 Noted 1950s-1970s D.J. dubbed a “fifth Beatle” 56 Basic idea
57 Start of “The StarSpangled Banner” 58 Seeks legal recourse 59 “Is everything all right?” 62 Dahs’ counterparts in Morse code 64 Dwindles, with “out” 65 L.A.-to-Denver dir. 66 Castaway’s locale 67 Article of living room furniture 68 Denver-toAlbuquerque dir. 69 Sign for the
superstitious
DOWN
1 Press “+” on a calculator
2 Cells separated by synaptic gaps 3 Starchy pudding
4 Some “college”
participants 5 Idiosyncratic habit 6 Aaron ___, Yankees manager beginning in 2018
7 Shrub that might
cause a rash
8 In all honesty 9 Scampered
10 One hanging around
a house? 11 Inheritance, e.g.
12 Act like
13 Saw red 19 Unaccounted-for
soldier, for short 21 Resistance unit 24 Relative of a chickadee 25 Annual horse race 28 “I’m speechless!” 31 Suffix with north or south
32 By way of
33 130 and 140 are high ones
34 Kama ___ 37 Indulges too much, briefly 38 “APPLAUSE” sign locale 39 Features of MayDecember marriages 40 “Wrong you are!” 41 Actor Louis ___ Jr. 44 Non-prophet foundation? 45 Railroad bridge support 46 Cinch ___ (commercial trash bag name)
48 Still to come 50 Kvetchers’ cries 52 Device that might have a trackball 53 Soldiers’ support grp. 54 Does a bit of lawn work 55 “___ Hope” (classic soap opera) 60 Miner’s haul
61 Plant in an English hedge 63 Politician with a six-year term: Abbr.