Th eNe w York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Tour de France, e.g. 5 Sonny Corleone, for
one
9 Crow
13 Professor in a library,
perhaps
14 New Testament epistle 16 Second attempt,
informally
17 Laura Dern, in “Little
Women”
19 Prelude to a perspective
20 Creepy-crawly, maybe 21 Made tight
23 Actress Thompson of
“Selma”
25 Swipe
26 Big name in Dadaism 27 Where R.N.s are always needed
28 Sarah Drew, on
“Grey’s Anatomy” 31 Shorten the sentence,
maybe?
34 Hip designs? 35 Ming-Na Wen, on
“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” 39 Princess Organa 41 Avowal to a long-distance lover
45 Barbara Billingsley, on
“Leave It to Beaver” 49 Santa’s helper?
50 QB blunder: Abbr. 51 Half of a centaur 52 One of the Obamas 54 To-go 56 Golf coup
58 Blind as ___
59 Chinese appetizers & or a punny description of 17-, 28-, 35- and 45-Across
63 Hair on the back of the
neck
64 Academic’s “and
others”
65 Christmas season 66 Crafts’ companion 67 Go downhill fast
68 Like quiche
DOWN
1 Engine stat
2 In the style of
3 Gets cozy
4 Watson, Willard and
Woodhouse 5 Unconscious condition 6 Dr.’s org.
7 Sequel title ender 8 Prepared to respond 9 Camembert cousin 10 Leftover bit
11 Sticks (to)
12 Positive media coverage
14 Title for M.L.K. Jr. 15 Prepare, as oysters or
corn
18 Elizabethan, for one 22 Trigonometry symbols
for angles
23 Nervous habit
24 Prefix with system 25 Actress Drescher of
“The Nanny”
28 ___ ears
29 Canada’s smallest
prov.
30 Compensates
32 Friend for Françoise 33 Swell
36 Go in headfirst 37 Mother Bethel ___ Church (Philadelphia congregation since 1794)
38 Soviet space station 39 Energy snack marketed to women 40 Contest hopeful 42 What might give you that nice warm Christmas feeling?
43 Big name in nail polish
44 International powerhouse in women’s soccer
45 Mexican root vegetable popular in salads 46 Relaxed
47 Bursts forth
48 Related to the stars 52 Team head: Abbr. 53 Single-handedly 55 Waze ways: Abbr. 56 Arthurian heroine 57 ___ Khan
60 Bit of land in the Seine 61 Component of a relay 62 Crafty