The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 Completely enthralled

5 Cry at the end

of the workweek

9 Police dept. alerts

13 Purple smoothie fruit 14 Used a loom

15 “Don’t ___ the small stuff” 16 *Amorous cartoon skunk 18 Towel material

19 Pioneering journalist

___ B. Wells

20 Cupid’s Greek counterpart 21 Central position

22 Home project inits. 23 Boxing ruling, for short 24 [I’m cracking up

as I type this!]

25 Historic period

27 Secret supply

29 *Impartial court proceeding guaranteed by the Constitution 32 Rocket launch site 34 Family guy

35 Ice cream brand

36 What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed 39 Poetic tributes

41 Phillipa of “Hamilton” 42 “Gnarly!”

43 *”Just a sec!”

46 Their are too in this clue 50 Source of hardwood

51 Bud

52 Musical set in Oz,

with “The”

54 Regret

55 Relating to the bottom layer 57 Numbers game 58 And so on: Abbr.

59 Zsa Zsa or Eva of

old Hollywood 60 *Short-lived store event 62 Two-way, as doors 63 Hockey feint 64 Something people trip on 65 Hershey toffee bar 66 Take five

67 “What fun!”

DOWN

1 Dangerous (and thrilling!) part

of a river, to canoeists

2 Nailed the exam

3 Orange smoothie fruit

4 50-50, e.g.

5 Bounce one’s booty

on the dance floor

6 Disappear like magic

7 St. ___ (skin care brand) 8 Hardly any

9 Wonderstruck

10 Summer meteor shower 11 *Platter used to

carry glassware

12 Pig’s place

15 It helps a clown stand tall 17 “___ Weapon”

(buddy cop film) 21 Sauron’s realm in

“The Lord of the Rings”

24 “A ___ ought to have a

good memory”: Quintilian 26 Gore and Green, for two 28 Involuntary muscle contraction 30 Bonus

31 Thin, as a voice

33 Dreary

36 Game that involves

covering one’s eyes 37 Christmas

38 Bread at a seder

39 Winning tic-tac-toe line 40 *Repository of

genetic material

44 Images that give the

illusion of movement 45 Fine-tunes

47 What ministers do

48 Extend beyond

49 Withdraw formally

53 Map enlargement

56 ___ Patch Kids

(gummy candy)

57 Bauhaus artist Paul

59 Dog tag wearers, in brief 60 First president to appear

on television, familiarly 61 Lumberjack’s tool