The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Three-point letter you won’t find in Scrabble?

4 One of the Pointer

Sisters

9 Chips, cookies,

etc.

13 Response to

“Who’s ready?”

14 Not free

16 Word with square

or air

17 Mercury is in this

20 “I’ve got it!”

21 Dangers in the

Amazon

22 What subs may

sub for

23 Afterword

25 One with many stuffy clients, for short?

26 Mercury might be

in this

28 _ _ _ Polo

30 Christmas party?

31 Party in the U.K.

32 Light touches

36 Is insufficient

39 Hipsteresque, say

40 Something posted from an online account

42 ___ nationalism, movement associated with the Baath Party

44 Here we are!

45 The Mercury

might be in this 51 Rio or Sorento

52 Have no more in

stock

54 Unit of

radioactivity

55 Lab report

component

57 Doesn’t bother

58 Mercury was in

this

61 English poet

Wilfred ___

62 Ice cream brand in West Coast supermarkets

63 Prefix with -phyte

64 One’s parents, slangily, with “the”

65 Square

66 Sch. in Texas

DOWN

1 Chewy, meaty dog

treat

2 Show of hands?

3 Turkish inn

4 “_ _ _ way!” (“Nice

job!”)

5 Reply found backward in “No thanks”

6 Clinch, as a

victory

7 Lethargic

8 Answer to the riddle “What can someone wear that never goes out of style?”

9 Some Feds

10 Choice words

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11 Having a neat

appearance

12 The 19th Amendment is part of this

14 Reply in which one parent says to go talk to the other parent

15 Bullfight bull

18 Burn the surface

of

19 Heated pool?

23 “And so ...”

24 Total hassle

27 Goggle

29 Org. for lawyers

31 Sliceable food

purchase

32 Game for a toddler

33 Smoothie bar order served with a spoon

34 Defeated soundly

35 Good to go

37 Brand once promoted as the “forbidden fragrance”

38 “Phooey!”

41 Allure

43 Curling targets

45 Cautionary store sign from an alcohol retailer

46 Used

47 “Phooey!”

48 Light charges?

49 Centrist in British

politics, informally

50 “Bye!”

53 Fridge visit for a midnight snack, say

56 Bowling pins on

the back right

57 ___ gai (Thai

dish)

59 Main ingredient in

a Longshoreman

60 “Tee” follower