The New York Times Crossword

By Teddy Katz and Rich Katz

ACROSS 1 4

Throw in

Not fixable, as an error

9 Group whose full name translates as “Bulletproof Boy Scouts”

12 Hit or miss,

perhaps

14 It makes you “dance down the street with a cloud at your feet,” in a 1953 hit

15 Red ___ (serving at a Carolina barbecue)

16 People also known

as the Cat Nation

17 Powered down, in

a way

18 “The pause that refreshes” sloganeer, once

19 Disturb, in a way

21 Bill supporting

public television

22 Told where to go,

say

23 Use X-ray vision on

25 Graceful

27 Make love?

28 So-called “missing

links”

29 Chignon, for one

31 In the past

32 Risky wager ... with a hint to the letters in this puzzle’s circled squares

State in debate

41

42 Phenomenon nicknamed “Karl” in San Francisco

43 Biblical site of a

burning bush

44 Soft rock

45 Doctor for kids

47 Cleans (up)

48 Olympic champion who said he threw his gold medal into the Ohio River

49 Garden party annoyance, colloquially

51 Spider web,

effectively

52 Part of a pen

name?

53 Philanthropy

55 Characteristic of video poker, lottos and casinos

59 Results of some dating app matches

63 Hoodwink

64 Fat substitute

65 Second of five?

66 Totally pumped

DOWN

1 Disinclined

2 Response to

“Merci”

3 Sat on a

clothesline, say

4 This too shall pass

5 Kind of acid

6 ___ gun

7 Dizzy

8 Was up

9 Flower

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10 “I want to go with

you!”

11 Nation with a fourcentury “Viking Age”

13 Controvert

15 Italian apology

20 Permit

22 Hundos

24 Approved on

Politifact, say

26 Speaker of the line “I follow him to serve my turn upon him”

30 Landlord-paysbroker, in rental lingo

31 Existential unease

32 Word with bank or

base

33 Not written

34 Jamaican tangelo

35 N.F.C. South pro

36 Degenerate

37 Meaning of the

Italian “lui” or

German “ihn”

38 Aware of

39 Part of yourself that you can’t see without two mirrors

40 Essence

45 Careened across

snow, maybe

46 Sleek ocean

swimmers

49 Broke one’s silence

50 Life of ___

52 Impressive

showbiz quartet

54 CD component

55 “Windowpane”

56 Plastic ___ Band

57 “I meant that

sarcastically”

58 Title of respect

59 Stylish dresser

60 Degree in math?

61 Test for a future

PH.D.

62 Blue