The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

Some water bearers

6 “M*A*S*H” costar Alan

10 Dressed

14 “Kate & _ _ _”

(1980s sitcom)

15 Tandoori chicken

accompaniment

16 “In time we _ _ _ that which we often fear”: Shak.

17 First American to

orbit the earth

19 Littlest speck

20 Born

21 Flinch, say

22 Made a choice

23 Fancy “so”

25 Selma march leader who served 17 terms in Congress

27 Pageant prize

29 Not learned

30 Introductory

course?

31 Throws in

34 Its HQ is sometimes called “Crypto City”

35 Winter underwear … or what appear four times in this puzzle

39 “Eureka!”

42 Damage, so to

speak

43 Football penalty

markers

47 “Gracias!”

response

1

50 With 63-Down, boxer who retired undefeated in 2007

51 Only U.S. president elected under the Federalist Party

56 Event with a royal

court

57 Barber’s razor

sharpener

58 Talk to shrilly

60 Dawg

61 Norse god portrayed in film by Chris Hemsworth

62 Broncos QB who won back-to-back Super Bowls

64 Bridle strap

65 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” heroine

66 “How about that!”

67 Logical operators that output “true” only if both inputs are true

68 Dry run

69 Like many

bathroom floors

DOWN

1 Refrigerator

decorations

2 Largest country in

Africa

3 Bootleg, e.g.

4 Goose egg

5 Oracle

6 Yearly record

7 Jousting weapon

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8 Italian poet who wrote “Nature is the art of God”

9 _ _ _ Taylor

10 Contribute

11 Like some Hmong

12 Bears witness

13 Its shores have the lowest landbased elevation on Earth

18 Fish with “snowflake” and “sawtooth” varieties

22 Have title to

24 Unwritten

26 One might be made on a birthday

28 Kerfuffle

31 In the past

32 CD players?

33 .

36 Sports org. with more than a thousand members

37 Sports org. in which five members have bird names

38 *How rude!*

39 2019 Brad Pitt sci-fi movie whose title means “to the stars”

40 Pagan

41 IOS alternative

44 Court failure

45 “Hallelujah!”

46 Siberian sled dog

48 Decorates

49 Fist bump

52 “Baloney!”

53 Busy places at

Christmas

54 Food fight sound

effect

55 Old saying

59 Nincompoop

62 Make a fast stop?

63 See 50-Across