The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Fake news source?
5 ___ lab (hosp. location for stent placements)
9 “American Psycho” novelist
14 To whom Mama Cocha was goddess of the sea 15 Fantasy foe
16 Smallest South Pacific nation
17 Rise in the air
18 “Veep” actress DuVall
19 Biblical mount
20 Pilates target
21 Establishment offering tom yum soup or pad woon sen noodles
23 Most immediate 25 GPS options: Abbr.
26 Yellow-flowered medicinal plant
27 Goes toe to toe (with)
29 Can alternative
32 Fantasy foe
34 “___ said …”
35 Certain entry requirement
36 Acclaimed HBO comedy series whose creator stars as himself
41 Unwanted responsibility
42 Strand in a cell
43 Dallas pro 44 Relentlessly follow
45 Vodka brand, informally
47 Leisurely paces
51 Wheels on a base
52 Recover from a bender
54 Risky baseball strategy that’s indicated four times in this puzzle?
58 Stand-up comedian Wong
59 Boots
60 Within reach
61 Body image?
62 Work at St.
Peter’s Basilica
63 Ending with
leather or towel
64 Body part that’s an anagram of 11-Down 65 This is for
suckers
66 One of 28 in a
Monopoly box 67 Negroni garnish
DOWN
1 The flowers in Amy Lowell’s “Your great puffs of flowers / Are everywhere in this my New England”
2 Certain to happen
3 Pursues, as a hunch
4 Good name for a marine biologist?
5 Runs together, in a way
6 Tips for shoemakers
7 ___ leches (Latin American cake) 8
Summer eruption 9 Comes after 10 Haunts
11 Roman goddess who’s an anagram of 64-Across
12 Modern-day site of ancient Persepolis
13 Word with power or strong
21 Lachrymose
22 Many a fancy hotel lobby
24 Self-important types
28 Kind of guidance
29 Soccer great Hamm
30 Biblical mount
31 Agricultural item that Nigeria produces more of than the rest of the world combined
33 Nevada senator Catherine ___ Masto
35 Joie de ___
36 The fish in fish and chips, commonly
37 Cry at a card table
38 It’s cut by a dancer
39 Still sealed
40 Did nothing
45 School board?
46 Falls behind
48 Big competitor of Microsoft and IBM
49 University with a pelican mascot 50 Kind of column
51 Compact
Volkswagen 53 Sculled, e.g.
54 Dips in gravy 55 Give up 56 End-___
57 Politico Buttigieg 61 Condiment for a burger