The New Your Times Crosdsword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 It’s black on one side and white on the other, in Othello
5 Scratchy voice
9 Trailhead displays
13 Snack item that might be twisted or dunked
14 Casino buy-in
15 Holder of keys,
phone and IDs
16 Lisa with the 1994 #1 hit “Stay (I Missed You)”
17 City in
Normandy
18 Things that
thinkers think of
19 T or F, e.g.
20 Business review
site
21 Go over again,
as plans
22 Soda can
opener
24 Chimichurri or
hollandaise 26 Stuck-up
27 Like a weedy
garden, perhaps
31 Key above Caps
Lock
32 Stock launches,
in brief
33 ___ Culbertson, member of the contract bridge hall of fame
34 Word before firma or incognita
36 Doze (off)
37 Mac maker
39 Post-O.R. locale
40 Magical writing, as in Dungeons & Dragons
41 Rock’s ___
Fighters
42 Big name in electric toothbrushes
45 Li’l slip
48 Lets the tears
flow 49 Wining and
dining, say
50 Like some volleyballs and hair
53 Fellow,
informally
55 Road gunk … or, when doubled, tooth gunk
56 Borden Dairy
cow
57 Country between Thailand and Vietnam
58 Aura
59 Wasn’t well
60 Luxury hotel chain
61 Not worth having, as an argument
62 Butt
63 Try the patience of
64 “Need You Tonight” band, 1987
DOWN
1 Practice
swimming
2 Like some T-shirt
graphics
3 Line from “Dick and Jane” readers
4 Inner ear?
5 Fly past
6 Meticulous to a
fault
7 Improves to meet a challenge … or a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters
8 Fountain ___
9 Toledo minorleaguer, named for a marsh bird
10 Word before 51
or rug
11 Educational
promos, in brief
12 Meeting,
informally
15 Jigsaw item
20 “___ dabba doo!”
21 They’re hard to
get out of
23 Lift on a ski slope
25 Battery end
28 Testimony under
oath
29 Loss leader?
30 Henna, e.g.
32 Harden (to)
34 “___ but a
scratch!”
35 Green prefix
37 In progress
38 The fuzz
40 Antipest spray
43 More “ew”inducing
44 Belief system
45 Takes responsibility for a mistake
46 How breakfast cereal is usually packaged
47 Heron varieties
50 Scorch on a grill
51 Ballet dip
52 Cuba, por
ejemplo
54 Periods longer
than eras
57 Place to park
58 Keydets’ sch.