The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

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