The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Singer Bareilles who wrote and composed the music for Broadway’s “Waitress”
5 Loses one’s footing
10 Varsity letter earner, say 14 With 64- Down, shrinking body
of water in Asia
15 Painter Matisse
16 Big name in running shoes 17 Diminutive Jedi master
18 It may include a backpack,
boots and a water bottle 20 Slightly off
22 Gyllenhaal of “Brokeback
Mountain”
23 Decompose
24 Japanese verse with 17
syllables
27 AOL alternative
29 Get a pet from the pound,
e. g.
30 Word before chill or chimes 33 Busy worker in Apr.
36 Item compared in “Who Wore
It Best?”
38 Tony the Frosted Flakes
mascot, e. g.
39 Expensive, as a product line 41 Seven Dwarfs’ cry as off to work they go 43 Protection against kitchen splatters
44 Put on, as a play
46 Gratuity
47 Look closely ( at)
48 Wipe the board clean
50 “Let’s ___!” (“Dig in!”) 52 Supermodel and longtime
“Project Runway” host 56 Place for a mud bath 58 Appearance
60 “Swell!” 61 Toyota Prius and Honda Insight
65 Not fooled by
66 Fashion monthly with more than 40 international editions
67 “Well, golly!”
68 Luau instruments, for short 69 Like the part of a swimming
pool with the diving board 70 “Gotta go!”
71 One of a set of four on
a London taxi
DOWN
1 Doctor’s request during a physical
2 Scent
3 Half- diameters
4 Juneau is its capital
5 “Quiet!”
6 Luau garland
7 Some office printers
8 Trojan War king
9 What things do in quicksand 10 Boozer’s binge
11 Like some FedEx or DHL
service
12 “Gotta go!”
13 Go-___ ( kid’s racer)
19 Thing of beauty 21 Out of the blue
25 X- rated stuff
26 Some newspaper essays 28 Big gulp from a bottle 31 Classic soda brand
32 What prices do in bear
markets
33 English fellow
34 Prop for Santa Claus or Frosty
the Snowman
35 Pleasant
37 Puppeteer Lewis
38 Connects ( with)
40 Dance at a Jewish wedding 42 “Omigosh!”
45 Like many members of
Gen Z, now
49 Barely make, as a living 51 Texter’s “I didn’t need to know
that”
52 Actress Anne of “Wag the Dog” 53 Tall and lean
54 Speak
55 Glacier National Park sighting 56 Backyard building
57 1960s TV’s “Gomer ___,
U. S. M. C”
59 Vows exchanged at the altar 62 Dem.’ s counterpart
63 Spanish king
64 See 14- Across