new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 California valley 5 It may be cut by an uppercut 8 Off-mike remarks 14 Counting of the ___ (observance
after Passover) 15 Prefix with skeleton 16 Totally confused 17 *Staffing level 19 Flu sufferer’s quaff 20 Montezuma’s people 21 Spout forth, as venom 23 Mid 11th-century year 24 Handed out 25 *Refuse to cooperate 27 Protein-rich bean 29 Revolutionary killed in his bathtub 30 It’s taken before a shot 33 Takeout container size 35 “Axis of evil” member 38 Inviting danger … the end of which combines with each half of the answer to each asterisked clue 43 Tijuana’s peninsula 44 Peak in “The Odyssey” 45 Marked, in a way 46 Name in garden products 50 Singer with lowercase initials 52 *Woodcraft hobbyist’s creation 55 Horse of the Year, 1960-64 59 A, in Arles 60 Muddy up 61 Like the Best Picture of 2011 62 Mucho 64 *Toothless mammal 66 Zippo filler 67 Word on Italian street signs 68 “Comin’ ___ the Rye” 69 Likkered up 70 Flow back 71 Ref. works sometimes sold with magnifying glasses
DOWN
1 One without roots 2 Blow away 3 Numerical prefix 4 Van Cleef & ___ (French jeweler) 5 Moe, Larry and Curly, ethnically 6 Wood splitter 7 Least skillful 8 Parthenon goddess 9 Prebirth event 10 N.Y.C.’s first subway 11 Obsolescent printer type 12 Tom of “The Seven Year Itch” 13 Creature with one foot 18 Prey for moray eels 22 Fluffy lap dog, for short 25 Violated the “code of silence” 26 Street urchin 28 Yang’s opposite 30 Alert for the squad, for short 31 Dockworkers’ org. 32 Baton wielder 34 1955 Thunderbird seating capacity 36 Lionel Richie’s “You ___” 37 Proof letters 39 Sale locale 40 Part of a chain 41 J.F.K. inits. 42 Tearjerker watcher’s item 47 Homophone of 16-Across 48 Walked, with “it” 49 Vote in Parlement 51 Cold dessert 52 Nursery purchases 53 Bidirectional, like a door 54 Work like a dog 56 River of Hades 57 Dummy Mortimer 58 Others, in Oaxaca 61 Wild guess 63 It has teeth but no mouth 65 Penpoint