NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 9-to-5 activity

5 In heaven, say 10 Like a Saturday crossword

14 Person in a boardroom, informally

15 It’s in the details, they say

16 Arthur who wrote “Days of Grace” 17 Meat substitute 18 Cards in Monopoly 19 Put the kibosh on 20 French conductor Boulez

22 Upscale hotel facility

23 Electrical unit 26 “___ relax” (“Breathe”) 27 Web-footed diver 28 Things that may be broken when moving?

30 Pic picked in a parlor

32 Gare de l’___, Paris railway station 33 Senegal’s capital 34 Where the sheep is in “Little Boy Blue” 37 One totally unlike another … or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has?

41 Inscribed stone markers

42 Having no toppings, as a pizza 44 Singer/songwriter Difranco 47 Rocks, in drinks 48 Pooh’s morose

friend

49 Complete stranger,

slangily

51 Gregor ___, Kafka character who transforms in “The Metamorphosis” 54 Put in stitches 55 Unpleasant

encounter 56 Madison Square

Garden team 58 “Really?”

59 Bird whose beak inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution 60 Fend (off) 64 Flying formations 65 Accustom to

difficulty 66 Taiwanese

electronics giant 67 Like a Monday

crossword

68 In hell, say 69 Off-hours activity

DOWN

1 Rainy

2 Big name in kitchen utensils

3 Arena arbiter, informally 4 Single-serving coffee pod 5 Venomous snakes with zigzag patterns on their backs 6 Drunken, in a way 7 Not hidden 8 Obsolescent home movie format 9 They loop the Loop 10 Rips into

11 Shrewd

12 Some French wines 13 Take off, as a plane 21 Method of successive improvement

22 In some sense 23 Like the year you ring out on December 31

24 In a ___ of trouble 25 Speedy shark 29 Pizza joint in “Do the Right Thing” 31 Hubbub

34 Fancy notebook brand

35 Fuel economy org. 36 Foxlike

38 Critic’s pick, for short

39 Tourist city in New Mexico’s high desert

40 Dublin’s land

43 Like the year you ring in on January 1 44 Land, as a plane 45 Seasickness, e.g. 46 Some belly buttons 48 Forgo 50 Bubbleheaded 52 Cancel

53 Prefix with aggression 57 Exchange

59 Little lie

61 Kind of tear for an athlete

62 Stephen of “V for Vendetta”

63 Not rainy