The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Trace of smoke
5 McEntire known as “The
Queen of Country”
9 Like aged cheddar
14 Length x width, for a rectangle 15 Major monitor maker 16 Flooring installer
17 Engaged in some risky
behavior
20 “Eww, I didn’t need to know
that”
21 Nonnegotiable salary limit 22 Microphone jack, for one 27 Sit-___ (some protests) 28 “Thar ___ blows!”
29 Poetic contraction that omits
a “v”
30 Measure of time, in music 32 Alternative to a station wagon,
in brief
33 Cook for too long, say 35 Chunk floating in the Arctic
Ocean
36 “I’m appalled!”
41 “Whose ___ Is It Anyway?”
(long-running improv show) 42 Alphabetically first group in
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 43 Curtain hanger
44 Watch over, as a fire
45 Agcy. for drivers
46 Veer suddenly
47 Flaky fish
48 Be honored before burial 52 Portuguese or Spanish 55 French word that sounds like
an English pronoun
56 With 67-Across, in a sudden and completely apparent way ... or a punny description of this puzzle’s circled letters 62 Enclosures for shark
watchers
63 The “R” of I.R.L. 64 Messy, semiliquid substance 65 Analyze, as ore
66 Droops
67 See 56-Across
DOWN
1 “A good time ___ had by all” 2 Tick off
3 Dolphin’s home
4 LaBelle known as “The
Godmother of Soul” 5 Half-diameters
6 Prefix with system
7 Jerry’s partner in ice cream 8 Bespectacled cartoon
aardvark
9 Move slightly
10 Rear
11 Activist who co-founded Black
Lives Matter
12 Disavow
13 Gets ready
18 Genre sometimes mixed with
rap
19 Word before trick or tip 22 Aide: Abbr.
23 “That’s not true!” 24 Appetizers sprinkled with
paprika
25 “Awkwafina Is ___ From Queens” (Comedy Central series) 26 George Eliot or
Mark Twain
30 Letter after alpha 31 Mis-enter a passcode, say 33 Assemble, as a book 34 ___ with caution
35 Fella
37 Greed, gluttony or sloth 38 “Duh!,” in modern slang 39 Source of milk for some
cheeses
40 Relatively easy section of a
jigsaw puzzle
44 Wolff who wrote “This Boy’s
Life”
45 Certain restaurants
… or their customers 47 About, in dates
48 Place to wear goggles 49 Christmas carols
50 Take to court
51 Little bit of color
53 Mother of Zeus 54 ___-bitsy
57 Steaming cupful
58 Make like a puppy’s tail 59 Smallest poodle
variety
60 Clod-breaking tool 61 Records with only a few
tracks, for short