NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Combat sport on payper-view, in brief

4 On the ___ of the

moment

8 Like oversize clothes 13 ___ milk (nondairy

choice)

14 On the up-and-up 16 Match in opinion 17 *Asian American who became only the second woman to win the Oscar for Best Director

19 Shrek’s love

20 Listened to

21 Penthouse or attic 23 Rear end, to Brits 24 *Runway model famous for her work as a Victoria’s Secret Angel

26 Agcy. dealing with

workplace accidents 28 Animals around the

house

29 Elvis’s wife

34 Jewish community

center, for short

37 D.C. “Squad” member 38 Fashionable … or where you might find the starts of the answers to the starred clues 41 Command between

“ready” and “fire” 42 Like a basso’s voice 44 Vegetables in

traditional moussaka 46 Did a sketch

49 Disturb, as sediment 50 *Longest resident performer at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace

54 Have ___ in one’s belfry 58 Response

to a stimulus

59 Baked pudding of potatoes or noodles in Jewish cooking 60 Loosen, as laces 61 *Atlanta rapper featured on Lizzo’s Grammy-nominated “Exactly How I Feel” 64 Bishop’s hat

65 Stop and Yield

66 AOL, for one

67 Budweiser and Beck’s 68 Altoids

containers

69 Tennis court divider

DOWN

1 Chocolate-flavored

coffee

2 HBO’S “Real Time With

Bill ___”

3 Book of maps 4 Transport down a

winter hill

5 Dispenser candy 6 “That tastes bad!”

7 Cowboy’s rope 8 Perplex

9 Nimbleness 10 Bachelor party

attendee 11 Italian city where

Columbus was born 12 Ache (for)

15 Saturday morning TV

character

18 Dunkable cookies 22 Vitality

24 Place for a goatee 25 Split in two

27 Biol. or chem. 29 Increase unnecessarily,

as an expense report 30 ___ v. Wade

31 Cold drink with

caffeine

32 Something to throw on

a fire

33 Belligerent, in London

35 Runaway success 36 Mornings, informally 39 “Once ___ a time” 40 Inventor Whitney 43 More costly 45 Collection of songs

47 Goes in

48 One of ancient China’s

Three Kingdoms

50 Bit of bread

51 Start of a playground

rhyme

52 Kennel

occupants

53 Arctic dweller

55 Once more

56 All wound up

57 Got some

shut-eye

59 Candy item in foil 62 Some movie f/x 63 MSNBC competitor