The New York Times Crossword

By Garrett Chalfin and Andrew Kingsley

ACROSS

1 Completely

enthralled

5 Cry at the end of

the workweek

9 Police dept. alerts

13 Purple smoothie

fruit

14 Used a loom

15 “Don’t ___ the

small stuff”

16 *Amorous cartoon

skunk

18 Towel material

19 Pioneering journalist ___ B. Wells

20 Cupid’s Greek

counterpart

21 Central position

22 Home project

inits.

23 Boxing ruling, for

short

24 [I’m cracking up

as I type this!]

25 Historic period

27 Secret supply

29 *Impartial court proceeding guaranteed by the Constitution

32 Rocket launch site

34 Family guy

35 Ice cream brand

36 What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed

39 Poetic tributes

41 Phillipa of

“Hamilton”

42 “Gnarly!”

43 *”Just a sec!”

46 Their are too in

this clue

50 Source of

hardwood

51 Bud

52 Musical set in Oz,

with “The”

54 Regret

55 Relating to the

bottom layer

57 Numbers game

58 And so on: Abbr.

59 Zsa Zsa or Eva of

old Hollywood

60 *Short-lived store

event

62 Two-way, as doors

63 Hockey feint

64 Something people

trip on

65 Hershey toffee bar

66 Take five

67 “What fun!”

DOWN

1 Dangerous (and thrilling!) part of a river, to canoeists

2 Nailed the exam

3 Orange smoothie

fruit

4 50-50, e.g.

5 Bounce one’s booty on the dance floor

6 Disappear like

magic

7 St. ___ (skin care

brand)

8 Hardly any

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9 Wonderstruck

10 Summer meteor

shower

11 *Platter used to

carry glassware

12 Pig’s place

15 It helps a clown

stand tall

17 “_ _ _ Weapon”

(buddy cop film)

21 Sauron’s realm in “The Lord of the Rings”

24 “A ___ ought to have a good memory”: Quintilian

26 Gore and Green,

for two

28 Involuntary muscle contraction

30 Bonus

31 Thin, as a voice

33 Dreary

36 Game that

involves covering

one’s eyes

37 Christmas

38 Bread at a seder

39 Winning tic-tactoe line

40 *Repository of

genetic material

44 Images that give the illusion of movement

45 Fine-tunes

47 What ministers do

48 Extend beyond

49 Withdraw formally

53 Map enlargement

56 _ _ _ Patch Kids

(gummy candy)

57 Bauhaus artist

Paul

59 Dog tag wearers,

in brief

60 First president to appear on television, familiarly

61 Lumberjack’s tool