The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Make a pass at
6 Cousin of lager
9 Deposited soil
13 Dig deeply
14 Baldwin known for his presidential impersonation 15 Village Voice
award
16 Dress down
18 TD Garden athlete, informally
19 Gorge oneself,
with “out”
20 Smidgen
21 Salmon type
23 Wash. neighbor 24 San ___, Italy
26 “Live Free or Die Hard” director Wiseman
27 Potentially
offensive
30 Bread that’s often brushed with ghee
31 Early anesthetic 34 Main line from
the heart
36 Aquafina
competitor
37 “Wow,
unbelievable!” 40 Cause of yawns 41 Kitchen cabinet 42 Rainbow ___
43 Others,
in Oaxaca
44 “A Dream Within
a Dream” writer 45 Big college
major, informally 49 Suffix with
morph
50 Onetime giant in consumer electronics
52 Fair-hiring letters 53 Audited, as a
class
56 “Be quiet!”
58 X-ray alternative 59 Coveted,
as a position
60 Throws a fit
63 Fairy tale
meanie
64 Marriott
competitor
65 Core belief
66 Lies by the pool,
say
67 Penn of “Harold
& Kumar” films 68 Figure skating event … or what the circled items always come in
DOWN
1 Quaint fashion
accessory
2 Enthusiastic
assent 3 Friendly
Islands native
4 www.
wikipedia.___
5 Neither fem.
nor masc.
6 Pie ___ mode
7 Future perfect tense in grammar class, e.g. 8 Bounce back
9 Some mechanics’
tool collections
10 Informal cry from someone who is duped
11 Bloom
on a pad
12 Part lopped off by la guillotine 14 How pasta may be prepared 17 Talent for music 22 Fully explain 25 Nanny goat’s cry 28 Plays charades 29 Make rough 32 Brian who composed “Discreet Music” 33 What an air ball misses 35 Train system: Abbr. 36 Scooby-___ 37 Big step for a young company, for short 38 Silent “Welcome” giver 39 Reciprocally 40 Cold one
42 You, in Tours
44 Isthmus land
46 Native
of Mocha
47 Drugstore
location, often 48 Bank jobs
51 Sashimi staple 53 Dalmatian
feature
54 Pond organism 55 “Well,
all right then” 57 Start of a
web address
61 TV show that comes on at 11:29 (not 11:30) p.m. 62 Pekoe,
for one