The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Children’s
ball game
6 “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” band
10 Prefix with
-logical
15 Plants cultivated
for their sap
16 “Hey there”
17 Shown,
as teeth
18 Request for aid
in East Africa? 21 Suit
22 Resident’s
suffix
23 Ones with X-Genes, in comics
24 Figure on the top of Paris’s Notre-Dame
26 Hoosier
hoopsters
27 Call for cleanup in the Persian Gulf?
31 Uses cross hairs 34 “Traffic Crossing ___ Bridge” (pioneering 1888 moving picture) 35 Always, to
Shakespeare
36 Berate
38 Turkish title
39 Cut down
42 Sale tag abbr.
43 Word before
school or class 45 Chem. unit
46 Virus carried
by fruit bats
48 To be, to
Augustus
49 Slogan for a West African airline?
52 Shaman, e.g.
54 Smelting residue 55 Having a
corner piece? 57 Southwest sch. with an enrollment of over 70,000
58 “The ___
of Horace”
62 Entreaty for a spouse’s emigration to Central America? 65 Bowl 66 “Perhaps” 67 No-frills 68 Domineering 69 “An Inconvenient
Truth” narrator 70 Church council
DOWN
1 Hunky-dory
2 Three-time N.H.L.
M.V.P. Ovechkin 6 7 4 5 3 ToothpasteingredientQueen’s RoadworkindicatorDoor It benefits:has openerits Abbr.
8 9 “let residenceYes, Who youron shouldn’tboard babies growbe cowboys,”up to in countrya 1978 song#1
10 Let up
11 Arid
12 Segue 13 Let 14 One in a million, e.g. 19 Supermodel
Hadid
20 Game played
with 24 cards
25 Kind of spray
26 “My fault”
27 Subject of
finger-pointing 28 Shield of Athena 29 Wordless denials 30 ___ Republic, state toppled in 1933
32 ___ Thomas, entertainer with a Presidential Medal of Freedom
33 Tatami
material
37 Writer ___
Rogers St. Johns 40 “St. Elsewhere”
actor Ed ___ Jr. 41 Peter Falk
feature
44 Intensifies
47 “Great Scott!”
50 Harry Potter’s
owl
51 Mess up
53 Cosmetics brand
owned by Revlon 55 Attempt
56 Poi source
57 Light-years away 59 Anthropologist
Fossey
60 Opera singer
Pinza
61 Email button
63 “I think,” in texts 64 Short albums,
for short