NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ang Lee film about a shipwrecked boy and a tiger 9 Press conference danger for an unguarded comment 15 Weather phenomenon with freezing rain 16 New York lake named for an Indian tribe 17 Drinks for 007 18 McCartney’s songwriting partner 19 “A Nightmare on

___ Street” 20 Disco ___ of “The

Simpsons” 21 Hoity-toity type 22 Narrow opening 24 The “S” of WASP 26 “It’s all about me”

trait 29 “That’s amazing!” 30 Icelandic literary

saga 34 Fell apart 38 Hymn of praise 39 Stone Age tool 40 Garment for a gymnast or superhero 42 Yellowstone Park

grazer 43 Profit one hardly

has to work for 45 Figure at the left side of a musical staff 46 Brazilian city,

familiarly 47 Computer’s

“brain,” for short 48 Relatives of violas 50 Short-term office

worker 54 Second-largest

city in Kenya 58 Football six

pointers, for short 61 Damage 62 Question at the

end of a riddle 63 Coke Zero or

Pepsi One 65 Boeing rival 66 Release, as a

seatbelt 67 “It’s true!” 68 First light … or a phenomenon suggested by this puzzle’s seven sets of circled letters?

DOWN

1 Fruit slices at a bar 2 Challenge to a

bluff in poker 3 Physicist Enrico 4 Approximate no. 5 Inventor whose success went up and down? 6 Comic Sans, e.g. 7 Green car that comes in many colors 8 Chats online, for short 9 Like jack-o’lanterns or meaningless victories 10 ___ a million (slim

odds) 11 Something a

camper pitches 12 iPod or iPad

variety 13 Wedding vows 14 “Why ___ we be

friends?” 21 Book after

Genesis 23 Relate, as in a

story 25 Astonishment 27 Put on, as weight 28 Select, with “for” 30 Dine at a

restaurant 31 College bigwig 32 “Truth or ___?” 33 Samberg formerly

of “S.N.L.” 34 Network for

business news 35 Trompe l’___ 36 Take off, as weight 37 “The Last of ___” (1973 murder mystery) 38 “___ My Ride” (old

MTV series) 41 The Big Apple, for

short 44 “You’ve got mail”

co. 46 Not succumb to 48 French author

Albert 49 Singer Turner’s

autobiography 51 Be melodramatic 52 Title character of

Tyler Perry films 53 April fool, e.g. 54 “Love ya!” 55 Closely watched state on election night 56 A.M. hours, in

poetry 57 ___ in the woods 59 Openly challenge 60 Attack with a knife 63 Defective

firecracker 64 Estonia, once:

Abbr.

by Will Shortz