The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Trace of smoke 5 Mcentire known as “The Queen of Country”
9 Like aged cheddar
14 Length x width, for a
rectangle
15 Major monitor maker
16 Flooring installer
17 Engaged in some risky
behavior
20 “Eww, I didn’t need to
know that”
21 Nonnegotiable salary
limit
22 Microphone jack, for
one
27 Sit-___ (some protests)
28 “Thar ___ blows!”
29 Poetic contraction that
omits a “v”
30 Measure of time, in
music
32 Alternative to a station
wagon, in brief
33 Cook for too long, say
35 Chunk floating in the
Arctic Ocean
36 “I’m appalled!”
41 “Whose ___ Is It Anyway?” (long-running improv show)
42 Alphabetically first group in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
43 Curtain hanger
44 Watch over, as a fire
45 Agcy. for drivers
46 Veer suddenly
47 Flaky fish 48 Be honored before
burial
52 Portuguese or Spanish
55 French word that sounds like an English pronoun
56 With 67-Across, in a sudden and completely apparent way ... or a punny description of this puzzle’s circled letters
62 Enclosures for shark
watchers
63 The “R” of I.R.L.
64 Messy, semiliquid
substance
65 Analyze, as ore
66 Droops
67 See 56-Across
DOWN
1 “A good time ___ had by all”
2 Tick off
3 Dolphin’s home
4 Labelle known as “The Godmother of Soul”
5 Half-diameters
6 Prefix with system
7 Jerry’s partner in ice cream
8 Bespectacled cartoon aardvark
9 Move slightly
10 Rear
11 Activist who co-founded
Black Lives Matter
12 Disavow
13 Gets ready
18 Genre sometimes mixed
with rap 19 Word before trick or tip
22 Aide: Abbr.
23 “That’s not true!”
24 Appetizers sprinkled
with paprika
25 “Awkwafina Is ___
From Queens” (Comedy Central series)
26 George Eliot or Mark
Twain
30 Letter after alpha
31 Mis-enter a passcode,
say
33 Assemble, as a book
34 ___ with caution
35 Fella
37 Greed, gluttony or sloth
38 “Duh!,” in modern slang
39 Source of milk for some
cheeses
40 Relatively easy section
of a jigsaw puzzle
44 Wolff who wrote “This
Boy’s Life”
45 Certain restaurants …
or their customers
47 About, in dates
48 Place to wear goggles
49 Christmas carols
50 Take to court
51 Little bit of color
53 Mother of Zeus
54 ___-bitsy
57 Steaming cupful
58 Make like a puppy’s tail
59 Smallest poodle
variety
60 Clod-breaking tool
61 Records with only a
few tracks, for short