The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Message to the office staff 5 Old South American empire 9 Mosquitoes and gnats
14 Grp. that sets oil benchmarks 15 Start a game of cards
16 American living abroad, e.g. 17 Traveled by subway? 20 Mexican
mister
21 Seat at the bar 22 ___ v. Wade 23 Magnum ___
(greatest work) 25 Like a recovering hosp. patient, perhaps 27 “Would you call the elevator for me?” 32 Japanese sash 33 Piece of pizza 34 Foreordained 38 Chrissy of “This
Is Us”
40 Pet peeves? 42 Wine region of
California 43 Dickens’s “___
House” 45 “Naughty” and “nice” things for Santa 47 Letters after
nus
48 “Hand me a flashlight”? 51 Admits, as an offense
54 Pouty expression 55 “Well, lookee
here!” 56 “Person” that speaks in beeps and boops 60 Home that might
melt
63 Use French fries
as legal tender? 66 Constellation
with a “belt” 67 Good amount of
land to build on 68 Golf ball stands 69 Insurance giant 70 Worker paid day by day, maybe 71 Hairstyle that may have a pick
DOWN
1 Cuts the grass 2 Fencing sword 3 Amish cousin 4 Tentacled sea creatures 5 Vow before a judge
6 The latest 7 Jargon 8 Cher, e.g., voicewise 9 Remove, as a sticker
10 Part of an office telephone no.
11 Period of rapid growth
12 It’s a no-no 13 Like some ski slopes and prices 18 Pharmacy offerings 19 Certain pueblo dweller 24 ___-evaluation 26 Ending of seven Asian countries’ names
27 Item in a
purse
28 Whom Cain slew 29 Drawers for
money
30 Nail the test 31 Dog walker’s
need 35 Reason some people move to the Cayman Islands
36 More than
amazing
37 Dot’s counterpart in Morse code 39 Microwaves 41 Long part of a
rose 44 Hurricane that was the subject of 2006’s “When the Levees Broke” 46 Keeping a stiff upper lip
49 Any minute now 50 Should,
informally
51 Hot après-ski
beverage 52 Alternative to Chicago’s Midway
53 Put forward, as a
theory
57 Dinghy or dory 58 First word of a
fairy tale
59 Six years, for a U.S. senator 61 Abbr. on a 0 button
62 ___ buco 64 Sweetie pie 65 Leaf-turning
time: Abbr.