The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Petite pooch, familiarly
4 Small lumps
8 Plot twists may elicit
them
13 Group of docs
14 Aware of, as a scheme 15 Lassie, for one 16 Singer Benatar feels
blue
18 Consignment shop
business
19 Aromatic dried pepper 20 Author Grafton has
arrived for dinner 22 An alto probably can’t
hit it
25 California ball team 26 Actress Wells has just
entered the scene 28 First company to feature a gay couple in a mainstream U.S. TV ad (1994)
29 How a used item may
be sold
30 Slugger’s stat
32 Stop by
36 Tailor’s concern 37 Actor Nicholson will
bat next
40 Medium for some sculptures with short lifespans
41 Sample
43 “Fly swatter” for an
elephant
44 One of a fairy tale
threesome
45 Jazzy James 48 Baseball’s Boggs has
agreed to join us 50 Shot follower
52 Online magazine covering politics and culture
53 Actor Norris got
tagged
55 ___ Lama 58 Chart-topper, e.g.
59 TV father Cleaver has just left the starting line
62 Some garden dwellers 63 Skin care brand
64 Org. with an inspector
general
65 Located (in)
66 Lily that is Utah’s state
flower
67 Head of England?
DOWN
1 “Come to ___” 2 Country whose name
can be an exclamation 3 Compete intellectually
(with)
4 Condo restriction 5 Numero ___
6 “Just so you know&,”
in a text
7 “___ and Lovers” (D.
H. Lawrence novel) 8 Throws a lo-o-ong
pass
9 One who didn’t make
it to the office
10 “12 Years a ___” 11 Things some sorters
make
12 Oracle
A-swems below 15 Sound like an old
floorboard 17 Protected body parts for goalies and baseball catchers
21 News inits.
23 Circular wedding
dance
24 “Fast Money” channel 26 Addlebrained
27 Locale of both the highest and lowest points on the Earth’s surface
31 Mike’s candy partner 33 Some engine fuel 34 Purple berry 35 Relative of a sea gull 37 Zipped along on a
watercraft
38 Proverbs
39 Name of a mountain
range or a river 42 “How do you do it? I
want to know”
44 Trial stages
46 Trial stages
47 The Cards, on scoreboards
49 Cool cat
50 Where the compass
was invented 51 Science fiction awards 53 Classic N.Y.C. punk
rock venue 54 Counting by them
takes half the time 56 Big do
57 In that case
60 Ginger ___
61 Jaunty piano tune