The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

STELLA ZAWISTOWSKI ACROSS

1 Bottom of a shoe 5 Had on 9 Insurance worker 14 Work by a

composer 15 Skating leap 16 Outdoor party

locale

17 Pastime for armchair sports enthusiasts 20 Corrosive

substance 21 ExxonMobil’s

business

22 Toy that goes up slow and comes down fast 23 Close, as a jacket 26 What a grocery scanner scans, for short 29 Unidentifiable

protein 34 They’re paid to

play

36 Grp. that extends from Canada to Chile

37 Lustful,

informally 38 Sightseeing on

wheels

40 Finally starts

talking

42 Like draft beers 43 “Baby Cobra”

comic Wong 44 Christmas

season

45 Holy site in

Jerusalem 49 When a plane is

due in, in brief 50 Hair stylist,

fancily

52 Old Glory, for

one

56 Sch. in Fort

Worth 57 “The very idea!” 61 Spanish or French, but not German 64 “Tosca” or

“Turandot” 65 Opening for a

coin

66 Speak to a deaf

person, in a way 67 What the start of 17-, 29-, 45- or 61-Across is, in a bookstore 68 Tickle Me Elmo maker, once Otherwise

DOWN

1 Living room

seat

2 Iridescent gem 3 Meathead 4 Abbr. before a date on a business shingle 5 Question to a suspected culprit

6 Popular acne

medication 7 Starts up again,

as a computer 8 Pal of Jerry on

“Seinfeld” 9 Primate with no

tail

10 Talks on and on 11 And others:

Abbr.

12 River on which Cleopatra cruised 13 Couldn’t keep a

secret

18 Grad

19 Shpeak

indishtinctly 24 Ruler in preCommunist Russia

25 Heap for

burning 26 Instruction for a

violinist 27 Dehydrated

plum

28 Things weighed

against benefits

30 Not just a few 31 Come next

32 One who’s 18 or

older

33 Like an impatient and competitive personality 35 “Now!” in the

operating room 39 Intl. group that has no members in Europe or North America 40 Minnesota’s St.

___ College 41 Enter en masse,

as a car

43 In a terrible way 46 Coll. military

program

47 Most pleasant 48 Where inhaled

air goes

51 Find a second

function for 52 Creature that

goes “ribbit!” 53 Run easily 54 “You said it,

brother!” 55 Actress Teri 58 Colorado skiing

mecca

59 Objects in an

Easter hunt 60 Surrealist

Magritte 62 Scottish

negative 63 Member of a D.C.

“Squad”