NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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 a Q 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