Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
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 N.F.L.
player 44 Whatever floats
your boat! 45 Word with soul or
sob 48 Manhattan hoops
venue, in brief 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 W.W. II
radio lingo
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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 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 N.B.A. 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