NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Thing with pads and
claws
4 Wanders
9 Rod, reel, tackle box,
etc., for a fisher 13 Olympic Dream Team
inits.
14 Place in a mausoleum 16 ___ Tokarczuk, 2018
Literature Nobelist 17 Raiser of the dead? 19 Musk who founded
Spacex
20 Brainstorms
21 Go by, as time
23 Young Scottish lady 24 Financial aid for college that doesn’t need to be repaid
27 Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q 29 Person with a basket or
cart
31 Mixed-breed dog that’s
part spaniel
35 “Keen!”
36 “That’s ___ from me”
(refusal)
37 Arthropod that can roll
into a ball
40 Melted chocolate, e.g. 41 Word before mall or
poker
43 Right to cross someone
else’s land
45 Unlucky 48 Start of a newspaper
article, in journalese 49 Busy person just before
an election
51 Pledge drive giveaway 55 Fix, as a shoe
56 Insects that love wool 57 Appropriate initials of
“stuff we all get” 59 Lures for magazine
readers
62 Tiny bit 63 Minneapolis’s twin city 64 Defining period 65 Banana leftover 66 Cosmetician Lauder 67 Singer Lana Del ___
DOWN
1 Necessity for
a teacher
2 Carne ___ (grilled beef
dish)
3 Home of Cardiff and
Swansea
4 Yanks’ foes
5 Number said just
before “Liftoff!”
6 ___ snail’s pace 7 Edible mushroom with
a honeycomb cap 8 Gets a whiff of
9 Flips out
10 Best Actress nominee
for “Juno”
11 “A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away …” (“Star Wars” intro) 12 Tried to get elected 15 “Erin go ___!” 18 Elective eye surgery 22 Having tines
24 Big ___, nickname of
baseball’s David Ortiz 25 Unstable chemical
compound
26 Grand ___ National
Park
28 Comes down a
mountain, in a way 30 Rummage (around) 31 Alternative to Venmo 32 Like some beer at a bar 33 Related to big business 34 Cry to a toreador 38 Hay unit
39 For whom a product
designer designs 42 Against the law 44 Trending hashtag
beginning in 2017 46 Dots on a transit map 47 What lieutenants do to
captains
50 “Trees” in underwater
forests
52 It’s said to have the thickest fur of any mammal
53 When repeated,
comforting words 54 Op-ed piece, e.g. 56 Farm animal that kicks 57 Sample a soda, say 58 Tribulation
60 Back muscle,
for short
61 “What?,” in Oaxaca