NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Like the “i” in “like” 5 De ___ (in practice) 10 Read digitally 14 Not quite closed 15 Home near the Arctic Circle 16 ___ stick 17 Lady paid for one insect? 20 One of the Baldwins? 21 Old touring car 22 Charge to appear in a magazine 23 ___ Minor 25 Groups of limos, e.g. 26 Rodent that lets air out of
balloons? 31 Gene arising through
mutation 32 Written promises 33 Kitten sound 36 Diagonal 37 Enticed 39 Demanding sort 40 Slump 41 Land O’Lakes product 42 Sweet ’un 44 Spanish rum cake? 47 Help with a cover story, say 49 Comics beagle 50 Site of some Chicago
touchdowns 51 Hoedown partner 53 BMI rival 57 Headline after one of Becker’s
Wimbledon wins? 60 Grp. created at the Baghdad
Conference, 1960 61 Copier need 62 Abscond 63 Blood fluids 64 Each of this puzzle’s long Across
answers sounds like one 65 Zipped (by)
DOWN
1 Word after flood or floor 2 City east of Santa Barbara 3 Zip 4 Bits of sugar 5 Taradiddle 6 Ancient markets 7 Miss Scarlet’s game 8 Pizza parlor option 9 “That’s gotta hurt” 10 Popular card game 11 Grinder of a sort 12 Shoelace tip 13 Poet best known for “The
Highwayman” 18 Tale’s end, sometimes 19 Anklebone 24 Really, really good 25 Like St. Augustine, in 1565 26 Light touches 27 Kazan of Hollywood 28 Certain marcher in a parade 29 Finished with 30 Stock answer? 34 The dark side 35 Grow dim 38 Job listing inits. 39 Sits by a fire after a drenching,
say 41 Heckelphone cousins 43 Ornithology-related 45 “Out of ___” 46 Unite, in a way 47 Rock group Los ___ 48 “My fingers are crossed” 51 Gunk 52 The best 54 Choose the best of 55 Critic James 56 “What a relief!” 58 Powerful old Pontiac 59 Tide competitor