The Riverside Press-Enterprise
The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 “___ Lang Syne”
5 Played the role of
8 Sights at overnight
rest stops
13 [That’s hilarious!]
15 Huntsville’s home:
Abbr.
16 Make amends
17 “Sex and the City” actress ___ Jessica Parker
18 Flag-waver’s
specialty
20 Visibly in awe
21 Walk loudly
22 “The Simpsons”
neighbor
23 “When the going gets tough, the early bird gets the worm,” e.g.
26 What’s needed for a “Who’s on First?” routine
27 “Why are you in
such a rush?”
30 “Darn!,” in
Germany
33 Listing near a museum door, perhaps
37 Southwestern wolf
38 Best Actor nominee for “12 Years a Slave”
42 Famed art patron
Henry
43 Houston NFL player
44 Whatever floats
your boat!
45 Word with soul or sob Manhattan hoops venue, in brief
48
50 In an unprecedented manner
57 What some online
blockers block
59 Sealy competitor
60 Some traffic
directors
61 March Madness component that’s a phonetic hint to 18-, 23-, 38- and 50-Across
63 “My ___” (“Put
your money away”)
64 Escape
65 Work whose name comes from the Greek for “sing”
66 Close call
67 Amount at stake
68 Kind of school
69 “Anything ___?”
DOWN
1 Variety of Indian
tea
2 Eel, at a sushi
restaurant
3 Literary character who cries “You’re glumping the pond where the Humming-fish hummed!”
4 Hung loosely
5 Garbage
6 Wide-awake
7 American ___
8 Lyric poet from
Lesbos
9 Biblical verb
ending
10 Overhead features
on sports cars 11 Memo heading
12 What the stone is
in a stone fruit
14 Jeff Bridges’s “Big Lebowski” stoner role, familiarly
19 Circuitry units
24 Unworthy of
debate
25 City with 40 islands and nearly 350 lakes within its limits
28 “O,” in WW II radio
lingo
29 Screenwriter
Ephron
30 Doesn’t hesitate
31 Variety of Indian
tea
32 Suddenly
encounters trouble
34 “Interwebs”
35 ___ Miss
36 “Vivat ___!” (“Long live the king!”)
39 Dampens
No. 0313
40 Doorway feature
41 Web attachments?
46 Eve who wrote “The Vagina Monologues”
47 Destination for
scuba divers
49 Sensation on a
roller coaster
51 Sound of a roar,
maybe
52 Practice piece
53 Stood on hind legs,
with “up”
54 NBA great nicknamed “Diesel”
55 Derrières
56 Cosmetics mogul
Lauder
57 Several
58 Go full ___ (make a big deal of things, in modern slang)
62 Ending with lime or
orange