NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Blacksmith’s waste 5 More than right … or seldom correct? 11 Chicago-to-atlanta
dir.
14 “Easy to Be Hard” musical of the late 1960s
15 Bad record to set 16 Original “Veronica
Mars” airer 17 Absolute power
[chopped] 19 “Annabel Lee” poet 20 Writer Joyce Carol
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21 1990s Indian prime
minister
22 Ending with ectoor pachy23 Phrase on many No Trespassing signs [chopped] 27 Including an
unlisted number? 28 Brain parts 29 Comic cry of
dismay
32 Concerns for golfers 35 Game with scrums 37 Waste minimizers
[chopped] 41 Member of the British Commonwealth in the Mediterranean 42 Work hard
43 ___ soda
44 Fiery passions 46 Jamaican exports 49 Self-deprecate, then pause to get a reaction [squeezed] 55 Detail-oriented and
then some 56 Cartoon cry of
dismay 57 Nonsubmerging
W.W. II menace 58 Lead-in to an ext. 59 Topping made with this puzzle’s chopped and squeezed ingredients
62 ___ reminder 63 Chump
64 Place
65 Drug in the 1980 film “Altered States”
66 Tiny creature on a
slide
67 Just in case
DOWN
1 1993 Salt-n-pepa hit
2 2019 N.F.L. M.V.P. Jackson
3 “___ a stinker?”: Bugs Bunny
4 Be in mourning 5 1981 Grammy co-winner for “Double Fantasy” 6 Omaha stake? 7 Little pest 8 Opposite of radial 9 “Neat!”
10 One in a cote with a coat
11 Id checkers 12 Lululemon purchase
13 “Them”
18 Exam for many jrs.
22 World premiere 24 Barbershop supply 25 Rosewater of Kurt Vonnegut’s “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” 26 Boeuf alternative 29 Skimmer’s target,
often
30 Tomfoolery
31 Dark green side dish 33 Brooding style in
music or fashion 34 Vice president between Hubert and Gerald
36 Big inits. in
handbags 38 Longtime CBS
journalist Lesley 39 ___-truths
40 One who may endow a scholarship, informally 45 Concern for one with hypertension 47 Digital video format 48 Real dirtbag 49 Like some flaws
50 Boxer Marciano’s given name 51 Epic mess-up at a critical moment 52 “Seriously!” 53 Yarns
54 Dark beer 59 Nonprofit spot, in brief
60 Secretary of the Interior Haaland 61 #Metoo ___