The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Like the ocean’s ebb and flow 6 Words said at the front of an
aisle
10 Babysitter’s handful
14 ___ it all (unaffected) 15 Giggle
16 Indian flatbread
17 Italian confection brand known
for its gold foil wrappers 19 Composer Stravinsky
20 “Tiny” Dickens boy 21 Butterflies-to-be
22 Slangy command to someone
arriving with a six-pack 23 2007 Alicia Keys album 25 Scatter like a flock of birds 27 Home, informally
29 Starts to remove, as screws 32 Hemmed and ___ 35 Underhanded move for an
athlete?
37 “___ Dere” (jazz classic about
a toddler’s many questions) 38 Notification
39 One serving punch? ... or, parsed differently, a hint to 12 squares in this puzzle 40 Transport back and forth 41 Way to go, in Paris
42 Dough
43 Stiff, as competition
44 Fall Out Boy, e.g.
46 Item split by pedants
48 Casual getaways 50 Southwestern sights
53 Loath (to)
55 Gaming novices
57 La ___, Bolivia
59 Friedrich who created a scale
of hardness
60 Small dog originally bred for
fox hunting
62 Soeur’s sibling
63 Drew on 64 Protein-building acid 65 Swimming competition 66 ___ Gerritsen, author of
medical and crime thrillers 67 Seasons, in a way
DOWN
1 Only U.S. president also to
serve as chief justice
2 Flag carrier airline of Spain 3 Campus quarters
4 Assert
5 Its spots are actually rosettes 6 Restaurant chain with a smile
in its logo
7 Unleaded, so to speak 8 “Amen!”
9 Oracle
10 Intimate apparel in many
lawyer puns
11 First men’s tennis player to reach 10 consecutive Grand Slam singles finals
12 Subject of study at CERN’s
laboratory
13 Exhaust
18 13th-century Persian poet and
mystic
22 Cutesy sound that may
accompany a poke
24 Founder of heavy metal’s Body
Count 26 ___ Highness
28 Temporary embarrassment in a
public competition, figuratively 30 Deal breaker?
31 Eyelid woe
32 Sprinter that’s a homophone of
46-Across
33 One mentioned in “Class
Notes,” informally
34 Shout that may accompany
many arms waving
36 Rocker Rose
39 ___ fide
40 Much of Finland’s wilderness 42 Nutmeg’s “sister spice” 43 Parties that become naps when their first letter is changed to an “s”
45 ___ hound
47 Dinosaur DNA source in
“Jurassic Park”
49 Sensitive spots
51 When many hibernations end 52 Extremely virtuous sort 53 Radio toggle
54 Suffix with omni
56 “What are the ___?” 58 Two-thirds of 100
60 Start of an objection 61 Bombeck who wrote “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”