The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Ogden who wrote “Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros, / I’ll stare at something less prepoceros”
5 Largest continent 9 Responses to jokes 14 Female friend from France 15 Delivery vehicles
16 Make into law
17 Exact
20 Pale, as a face
21 First thing to do before changing clothes
22 UPS competitor 23 Weapon of mass destruction, informally 25 The Trojans of the N.C.A.A. 26 Girl’s name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet 27 ___ Romeo (Italian auto) 28 “Cat ___ your tongue?” 30 Tows
31 Abandoned and helpless 35 Cheerios grain 36 Roman numeral X 37 Where someone who goes next is standing 45 Military vehicles 46 Hawaiian wreath 47 Google’s red, yellow, green and blue “G,” e.g. 48 Some canine sounds 49 Debtor’s note
51 Put into office
52 Frat member
53 “They rooked me!” 56 Something that goes in a garage
57 Classic Michael J. Fox movie 60 Go off, as a volcano
61 Bat mitzvah dance 62 “Dancing Queen” group 63 Like good gossip 64 Twinkler in the night sky 65 ___ in show (canine award)
DOWN
1 Tusked marine mammal 2 Easy to get along with 3 Broadcast ender 4 Sneaky laugh sound 5 Stratford-upon-___ 6 Makeup of a beach
7 As a matter of fact 8 What remains after a fire 9 Borders of skirts
10 “I’ll take that as ___” 11 Dust buster
12 Like the ideal poker straight 13 Choices of hairdos 18 Place to take a bath
19 Key above a tilde 24 Welcome ___ (item at the entrance to a home) 26 Blunder
28 Pesky insect
29 Bus driver on “The Simpsons” 30 Hill on a beach 32 Charged particles 33 Suffix with Smurf 34 Where Samson slew the Philistines
37 Auto with a prancing horse logo
38 Tap the screen on a camera app, say
39 Special ___
40 Annual vaccination 41 Rapper ___ Kim
42 It goes “clink” in a drink 43 Dieting strategy that may lead to ketosis 44 Beseech
45 Made quick boxing punches
49 ___ Jima 50 Declarations at inaugurations 51 Professor’s email address ending
53 ___-bitty
54 Sister and wife of Zeus 55 At a distance
58 Metric meas. of speed 59 Part inserted to close a cereal box