The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Book of the Bible after John 5 Like some high- end cigars 10 ___ vu
14 Russian rejection
15 Like about 60% of the
world’s population 16 Daredevil Knievel
17 Org. for the New York
Cosmos
18 Alternative to a hedge 19 Answer to “Shall we?” 20 “Come in!”
22 Prez before JFK
23 Bygone car model
named for a horse 24 Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle
27 What’s far from fair?
29 ___ Fighters ( rock band) 30 Counterpart of long.
31 One side of Niagara
Falls: Abbr.
34 Had as a customer
36 Dijon darling
38 “Star Trek: TNG” character
with empathic abilities 39 Bump up in pay
43 Impart
44 $ 15/ hour and others 46 Suffix with elephant
47 Got ready to be
photographed
48 Takes too much, in brief 49 What a Heisman winner
might hope to become 52 “Le Comte ___”
( Rossini opera)
53 Weaving machine
54 First small bit of progress 56 Artist who created the painting hidden in this puzzle
61 Crime scene clue
62 Rapa ___ ( Easter Island) 63 Willem of “The Grand
Budapest Hotel” 65 Tower- building game 66 ___ Radio Hour
( NPR program) 67 Egg shell?
68 “Awesome!” 69 French religious title:
Abbr.
70 Specialty
DOWN
1 Green Gables girl
2 Ink cartridge color 3 Aviators trying out
new planes
4 Pope who negotiated
with Attila the Hun 5 Half-___ ( coffee order) 6 Did, once upon a time 7 Dot on a Hindu woman’s
forehead
8 Smallish battery
9 Fla.- to- Me. direction 10 Cold cut purveyors 11 With still greater
intensity
12 Rocker Joan
13 Plus
21 Falling- out
23 Essential part 25 Koh- i-___ diamond
26 Doily material
27 Elroy’s dog on
“The Jetsons”
28 Missile detection org. 32 Forty-___ ( old prospector) 33 All- in- one undergarment 35 Game cube
37 Chess rating system 40 Minor maladies 41 Counterparts of outs 42 Save for later
45 Dismiss with derision 47 Self- satisfied about 50 Harbor hazard
51 Took in some takeout, say 53 What the French pronounce “Louis” with that the English do not
55 “Well done!”
56 Increased
57 German article
58 Plum pudding
ingredient
59 Beyond the horizon
60 Civil wrong
61 Cover of night? 64 Hurricane’s center