The New York Times Crossword
No. 1109
ACROSS
1 Thing with pads and claws 4 Wanders
9 Rod, reel, tackle box, etc., for
a fisher
13 Olympic Dream Team inits. 14 Place in a mausoleum 16 ___ Tokarczuk, 2018
Literature Nobelist
17 Raiser of the dead?
19 Musk who founded SpaceX 20 Brainstorms
21 Go by, as time
23 Young Scottish lady 24 Financial aid for college that
doesn’t need to be repaid 27 Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to aQ
29 Person with a basket or cart 31 Mixed-breed dog that’s part
spaniel
35 “Keen!”
36 “That’s ___ from me”
(refusal)
37 Arthropod that can roll into a
ball
40 Melted chocolate, e.g. 41 Word before mall or poker 43 Right to cross someone
else’s land
45 Unlucky
48 Start of a newspaper article,
in journalese
49 Busy person just before an
election
51 Pledge drive giveaway
55 Fix, as a shoe
56 Insects that love wool 57 Appropriate initials of “stuff
we all get”
59 Lures for magazine readers 62 Tiny bit 63 Minneapolis’s twin city 64 Defining period 65 Banana leftover 66 Cosmetician Lauder 67 Singer Lana Del ___
DOWN
1 Necessity for a teacher 2 Carne ___ (grilled beef dish) 3 Home of Cardiff and
Swansea
4 Yanks’ foes
5 Number said just before
“Liftoff!”
6 ___ snail’s pace
7 Edible mushroom with a
honeycomb cap
8 Gets a whiff of
9 Flips out
10 Best Actress nominee for
“Juno”
11 “A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away …” (“Star Wars” intro)
12 Tried to get elected
15 “Erin go ___!”
18 Elective eye surgery 22 Having tines
24 Big ___, nickname of
baseball’s David Ortiz 25 Unstable chemical
compound
26 Grand ___ National Park 28 Comes down a mountain, in a way
30 Rummage (around) 31 Alternative to Venmo
32 Like some beer at a bar 33 Related to big business 34 Cry to a toreador
38 Hay unit
39 For whom a product
designer designs
42 Against the law
44 Trending hashtag beginning
in 2017
46 Dots on a transit map 47 What lieutenants do to
captains
50 “Trees” in underwater forests 52 It’s said to have the thickest
fur of any mammal
53 When repeated, comforting
words
54 Op-ed piece, e.g.
56 Farm animal that kicks 57 Sample a soda, say 58 Tribulation
60 Back muscle, for short 61 “What?,” in Oaxaca