The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Somewhat
5 Scottish delicacy 11 Arabian stimulant 14 ___ list
15 Still
16 Colorful card
game
17 One side of St.
George’s Channel 18 First set of circled
letters
20 Like some synthetic colorants
21 Stand-in, maybe 22 Instrument
anyone can play 23 Second set of
circled letters
27 Game often played on car rides
28 Vardalos of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”
29 Like a racehorse 32 Bonds, e.g.
35 Its motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain”
36 Like Tylenol PM,
for short
39 “___ you not
entertained?”
40 About 1,400 of them is the record for a human: Abbr.
42 Attic construction 43 Barrymore and Liu’s “Charlie’s Angels” co-star 45 Yadda yadda
yadda
48 Impetus for a bungee jump, maybe
49 ESPN broadcaster
Bob
50 Parlays
53 Third set of
circled letters
58 Verb for a dieter 60 Home in the
woods
61 Crack 62 Faction in China’s Cultural Revolution … or a hint to each set of circled letters
65 River through
Bath, England 66 “Rogue ___”
67 River paralleled by I-80 through a long stretch of the Plains
68 Mannerly man 69 Pick up
70 In the trash
71 Delta 88, e.g.,
informally
DOWN
1 Starters
2 Russian
wolfhound 3 “The Complete ___ Guide to …” (popular book series)
4 Shipping unit
5 Golfer Walter with 11 major championships
6 Smithereens
7 Searching
blindly
8 Subj. of a Kaplan
prep course
9 Eastern Med.
land
10 Commercial
interest
11 Quest for
knowledge?
12 A.D. part
13 Like some orders 19 Tibia connectors 21 Tharp of dance 24 Black ___
25 Nobelist
Bohr
26 “Grand Hotel”
actress
30 Be in the red
31 Dollop
33 Range located along the 60th meridian
34 Things in
pools
36 Like the number of games in a “best of” series 37 One in la
familia
38 Mesh for securing items in a truck bed 41 Lacking sauce? 44 1983 Woody
Allen film
46 What knitters need to match, often
47 Govt. org. whose funding is perennially debated
51 Commit a court
violation
52 Baseball position,
informally
54 Take in
55 Pan-fry
56 Hyper
57 Lets
58 All atwitter
59 Pointer for a
meteorologist? 63 Rapper ___ Rida 64 Scale notes
65 Past