The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Spider-Man villain ___
Octavius
5 Beefeater and Bombay
Sapphire
9 Woes
13 Prefix for many Ocean Spray
products
14 Oak, in a nutshell?
16 The Big Easy
17 What a pratfall may be done
for
20 Communist party systems 21 YouTube count
22 Actress Anne with four Emmy
nominations
23 Some theater honors 25 Program followed in
Alcoholics Anonymous 31 Proper way to pass 34 Sour-tasting fruit
35 A Stooge
36 What a swish misses 37 Agency HQ’d in Atlanta 40 May day celebrant 41 Bedouin, e.g.
43 Title that translates to “great
sage”
46 Sing under pressure
49 Talk a big game
50 Change in the Middle East,
say
54 In a jubilant fashion
56 Bug
59 Where magazines may be
laid out
61 Apartment listing info 62 Apartment listing info
63 Way to go
64 ___ Scamander, protagonist of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” 65 They may be set aside in a
collaboration
66 Chuck
DOWN
1 Razor handle?
2 Meet-cute in a romance film,
e.g.
3 2021 Super Bowl host city 4 Where we are
5 Mother to the Titans
6 “Rhyme Pays” rapper
7 Doesn’t make it through a
lecture, say
8 Honorific from Sanskrit 9 Overruns
10 Movie magnate Marcus 11 Entities with pass-through
taxation, briefly
12 Got into the swing?
15 ___ Shute, “A Town Like Alice”
novelist
18 Part of a cabinet
19 Vassal’s plot of land
24 “___ By Golly, Wow” (1972
hit by the Stylistics)
26 Judge of the Bible
27 Proof parts
28 California : palms :: New
England : ___ 29 “That’s nonsense”
30 Match before the final
31 Its flag displays a curved
dagger known as a khanjar 32 Filmmaker Ephron
33 ___ player
38 It holds water
39 Props, so to speak 42 Something kids often lose 44 Like some glasses 45 Question one might ask when looking at a banana taped to the wall
47 ___ contendere
48 ___ McCheese of old fastfood fame
51 Padmé Amidala’s home
planet in “Star Wars” 52 Rockefeller Center statue 53 Orchestra section
54 Feature of a creature feature,
perhaps
55 Some
57 Cowboys QB-turnedbroadcaster
58 Antarctica’s ___ Sea
59 Let go
60 Part of Italy where Calabria is
found