The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Match, as subject and
verb
6 Newspaper held in
low esteem
9 Cigar milder than a
maduro
14 Top of an espresso 15 Novelist Umberto 16 Swing by unannounced
17 Things that may fly
around saloons 18 France’s Académie ___
Beaux-Arts
19 Gives deep massage
therapy
20 Old Spice alternative 21 Violinist Zimbalist 23 Only president who
was also a chief justice 24 Film school deg. 25 “Whew! What a tiring
day!”
27 Padre’s hermana 28 Tackle, for one 30 Slicing, as through
water
32 Part of a cello that supports the instrument on the floor 33 Make right, perhaps in
a not-so-right way 34 Complete & as suggested by four symmetrical pairs of Down answers in this puzzle 38 Burn black
41 Layered cake
42 Group that votes
together 46 A lowercase “f” on a blue background, for Facebook
47 Like Delta Force forces 48 She said “Little boy, gonna make you a man,” in a Kinks song 49 Princess of Avalor, on
a Disney show
51 One of the Three
Stooges
52 Cares for, as a garden 53 New Deal prez 54 Airport screening org. 56 Cheer repeated before
“sis-boom-bah!” 58 Astronomers’ std.
59 “I Am & ___ Fierce,”
#1 Beyoncé album 61 ___ Park, Calif. 63 Plays (around) 65 Curvy
67 Started eating 68 Magic Johnson’s
10,141
69 Ten-gallon hat
70 Cry of disbelief
DOWN
1 Good-natured 2 Mythical beast that’s half lion and half eagle
3 Edmond ___, “Cyrano de Bergerac” playwright
4 James who sang “At
Last”
5 Canadian interjections 6 Distinctively colored
freshwater fish
7 Bitter
8 What “it” is supposed
to do
9 Y course
10 Rioter’s spoils
11 H.S. course often
covering the “Aeneid” 12 Making up variations
on a theme 13 Performing live, say 21 Send off, as rays
22 Sea cow
25 One who might become a fiancée 26 Record for later, in a
way
29 Screenwriter Nora 31 Flimsy, as an excuse 35 Stuffed grape leaves 36 Half a sextet 37 Member of the weasel
family
38 Pitch setter
39 Waits for a better
offer, say
40 Game box info
43 Like friends not seen
for years 44 Antebellum Dixie 45 People are asked to sign it after an accident
50 1896 Olympics locale 52 Hush-hush org.
55 Tell
57 Many Pennsylvania
Dutch speakers 60 Typical “Key & Peele”
segment
62 Dark time in France 63 E.R. workers
64 Second part of the sign of the cross, symbolically 65 Glimpsed 66 Indianapolis-to-Atlanta dir.