NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pocketbook part 6 Waiter’s last word

after serving food 11 Place ___ (part of a

table setting) 14 Hunt illegally 15 France’s longest

river 16 Award bestowed

by a queen: Abbr. 17 Busybody 18 Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor at the U.N. 20 Jeopardize 22 Colon, in analogies 23 Classic video

game with ghosts 27 Mosey 30 “Two and a Half Men” co-star starting in 2011 33 Femur’s locale 34 Two Romanov

czars 35 Photo ___

(campaign events) 38 Gumshoes, in old

crime fiction 39 Grand feather 40 ___ of Capri 41 Annoy 42 Country singer

Steve 43 Trojan king during

the Trojan War 44 Sporting champion with a drive for success? 47 Descriptive

language 49 “Of course you’re

right” 50 Anger 51 Not commissioned, after “on” 53 “The Fast and the

Furious” co-star 57 What “E” means

on a gas gauge 62 Verb-forming suffix 63 Witch 64 Brainteaser 65 Court divider 66 Crimean

conference site 67 Minnesota baseball team … or what 18-, 30-, 44- and 53-Across all are

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1 James Bond, for one 2 Little piggy, in a children’s rhyme 3 Sprinted 4 Play a role 5 Pyramid schemer? 6 ___ Club (civic

group) 7 Reading place …

or reading device 8 Competitor of Skippy and Peter Pan 9 “Either he goes ___ go!” 10 Word before “verily” in the Bible 11 Freak of nature 12 Lessen 13 Kind of sax 19 Number of heads of the Hydra, in myth 21 Bed-and-

breakfast, e.g. 23 Rocker Smith 24 “My Name Is ___

Lev” 25 Sexy guy 26 Boardroom

events: Abbr. 27 Flower’s pollen

holder 28 Teenager’s bane 29 Sounds of

hesitation 31 “___ was here” (W.W. II catchphrase) 32 Throat dangler 36 Part of a table

setting 37 Round after the

quarters 39 10-10 or Q-Q 40 Angers 42 Before, poetically 43 General rule 45 Elderly 46 Easter egg need 47 Football Hall-of-

Famer Michael 48 Indian corn 51 Mailed 52 Entreaty 54 Treacherous, as

winter roads 55 Long presidential

term, perhaps 56 The sun 58 Cut, as grass 59 Trident-shaped

letter 60 Number of Canadian provinces 61 Soph. and jr.