NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “No need to say it

again”

6 Group of criminals 10 Father on a stud

farm

14 Tennis star Osaka 15 Cookie whose packaging shows a splash of milk 16 What might give “caws” for concern for a farmer? 17 “Cómo ___?” (“How

are you?”: Sp.) 18 Droplet of happiness or sadness 19 Assistant

20 Things modern

travelers pack 23 Woodman’s makeup in “The Wizard of Oz” 24 Auto tankful 25 Dickens’s Oliver Twist or Kipling’s Mowgli

28 In the year of ___

Lord

29 Decrease in size, as

the moon

31 NNW’S opposite 32 Forms of some kids’ multivitamins 36 Direction after

adding sugar 37 Stockpile 38 ___-tac-toe

39 Road Work ___

(highway sign) 40 Ice hockey venue 41 Breakfast side at a

diner

43 “___, humbug!” 44 Exam 45 One who cries “Yer out!”

46 Ice hockey player 48 Ironically humorous 49 Score 100% on 52 Governmentbacked investments

56 B sharp or B flat 58 The Cowboys’ fivepointed star or the Colts’ horseshoe 59 Listings on an actor’s IMDB page 60 Melee

61 Idiot

62 Cognizant (of) 63 Camera’s “eye” 64 Ocular swelling 65 Items on a to-do list

DOWN

1 Like a butterfingers 2 Healthful Kellogg’s cereal brand

3 Off, palindromically 4 “Toe” of the Arabian Peninsula

5 Smart alecks

6 High schoolers who dress in black, maybe

7 Calculation in calculus

8 In the neighborhood 9 Mythological monsters with snakes for hair 10 Steep embankment 11 Traditional St. Patrick’s Day dish 12 Support for a shower curtain 13 Farm animal that sounds like a letter of the alphabet 21 Low-___ diet 22 “Able was I ___ I saw Elba”

26 Like Russia, east of

the Urals

27 Jocks’ counterparts,

stereotypically 28 Southern Siberian

city

29 Dress part that may

be taken in

30 St. Louis landmark

32 Clothes

33 Inuit boat 34 Whiskey cocktail … or where it was invented

35 When planes are

due in, for short 36 Engage in some

“retail therapy” 39 Kid with military

parents

41 Some angels … or

some newspapers 42 Hide in a hard-tofind spot

44 Prop for a football

kickoff 47 Three-point shots,

informally

48 Jotted down

49 Star student’s

report card, maybe 50 Worker for a Supreme Court justice

51 Twisty curves 53 Chimney buildup 54 Pretty ___

(oxymoron) 55 Hawkeye State 56 Org. that’s home to the ends of 20-, 32-, 41- and 52-Across 57 Mineral-bearing

rock