The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Cantina
4 Two-time Time magazine Person of the Year 9 Say maybe, maybe 13 “The Americans” K.G.B. officer ___ Burov
15 Robert Galbraith, to J.
K. Rowling
16 Summer cooler 17 Awake during the wee
hours, say
18 Gut feeling
19 “That was a close
one!”
20 Journalism
23 Showed sudden interest
24 They close at 9 p.m. in
New York
27 Smith of punk rock 31 “Excuse me!”
32 Nail site
35 Dismissive response to
critics 37 Approximately, informally
38 French greeting 39 Nuke
40 Parking lot event 44 Nation’s borders? 45 Basketball Hall-of
Famer Dantley 46 “Sweet and healing medicine of troubles,” per Horace
48 Town that inspired “The House of the Seven Gables” 49 Goes (through) laboriously
53 Pirate plunder & or a hint to interpreting an appropriate number of squares in this puzzle 59 Adult
61 At dinner and then the
cinema, say
62 What a volcano may
leave
63 Opposite of drain 64 One may be held by
candlelight
65 Hat worn by Charles
de Gaulle
66 Go down
67 Chicago’s ___ Expressway
68 Taste
DOWN
1 Fits
2 ___ dog
3 Subleased
4 Where the Ko’olau
Range is located
5 Busy day, in retrospect 6 “___ that somethin’?” 7 Speed measure
8 He beat Connors in the Wimbledon final in 1975 9 Oscar-nominated actor with nearly synonymous first and last names
10 Spike Lee film set at a historically black college
11 Notch shape 12 Support for a religious
group?
14 Flub
21 Hawaiian food fish 22 Cross
25 Actress Lindsay of
“Mean Girls”
26 Is nosy
28 “We can’t joke about
that yet?”
29 Golfer’s obstacle 30 Nation of ___ 31 Actress Annie of
“Young Sheldon” 32 Pockets of the Middle
East?
33 Grilled, at a taqueria 34 Eddies
36 Expert
41 Gather dust
42 Hearts or spades 43 Cry of surprise
47 Hit it off
50 People eaters 51 Oprah’s “The Color
Purple” co-star 52 Word after New York
or Las Vegas
54 Spot to lay anchor 55 Blyton who wrote “The Enchanted Wood”
56 Stuffing ingredient 57 For whom Wednesday
is named
58 Tricks
59 Sports org. with the New York Guardians and Seattle Dragons 60 Brazil’s ___ Roosevelt