new york times crossword
ACROSS 1 One of the Five Pillars of Islam 5 Shakespeare,
informally
9 Mists
15 “Interesting …” 16 Spark, so to speak 17 Taiwan’s capital 18 *“You fail to understand what I’m saying”
21 Nursery purchase 22 Smidgen
23 Info for a driver
at an airport 24 *Cheesy fare served
at a bar?
29 Old Renault
31 Berry marketed
as healthful
32 Chaplin of
“Game of Thrones” 33 Sanctify
34 Island garland 35 Bowled over 36 12-time Vatican name 38 *2006 cult-classic
action film
43 Flubs
44 Hurdle for a Ph.D.
candidate, typically 45 Firefighter’s tool 47 One-named
Spanish-born actress 50 No longer mint 51 Gush
52 Get connected after
typing one’s password 53 *“This relationship is smothering me” 55 Conjunction in the middle of a famous palindrome 56 Vegetable with pods 58 Narrow inlet
59 What a sci-fi portal might lead to … or what’s added successively to the ends of the answers to the starred clues 66 “The Bathers” painter 67 Symphony, e.g. 68 Spicy chocolate sauce 69 Trample
70 Horses that could be hounds or badgers? 71 Took to court
DOWN
1 Box-office success 2 Pale wood
3 Org. in “Breaking Bad” 4 Lakeside rental 5 Energy source from a “farm”
6 Swear words?
7 Permit to
8 Eva Mendes or
Eva Longoria
9 Editor’s override 10 Official decree from the Vatican 11 2016 Olympics city, informally
12 Each 13 Busybodies 14 Musical instruments with frets
19 Trifling amount 20 Tough row to ___ 24 Bud
25 Finishes, as a cake 26 Genesis son
27 Loamy soil
28 Intro to Chinese? 30 “Frozen” princess 35 LeBron James’s
hometown
36 “Gay” capital
37 Certain network ID 39 Streamlined, for short 40 Missing part of
the Sphinx
41 Mecca for oenophiles 42 “Suit”
46 Source of feta cheese 47 Unclogs
48 Big buzzer
49 Early toddlerhood 50 Japanese eel-and-rice dish 51 Involuntary jerks 53 Like the verbs “lie” and “lay”: Abbr.
54 Do wrong
57 Jerome who composed “Ol’ Man River” 60 Blouse or sweater 61 Hoppy quaff, for short 62 Container for
a 61-Down
63 Marker letters 64 Soccer match shout 65 Mustachioed character
on “The Simpsons”