The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

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