NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Note: The circled letters in this puzzle provide a hint to the starts of the answers to the four italicized clues.
Across
1 Genesis brother 5 An “art” for Donald Trump 9 “If you want to throw a fit, fine” 14 Japanese electronics giant 16 Like lambs and rams 17 Oil, informally 18 Some titillating messages 19 Perpendicular to a ship’s midline 20 Amounts after a decimal point 21 Longtime Lorne Michaels-produced
show, for short 22 Lady ___, first female member of
Parliament 26 Long-eared hopper 27 Bitter 30 Home on the range: Var. 31 On ___ with (comparable to) 32 Passover meal 33 Trounce 34 Call from behind the deli counter 35 Feature of Rome’s Pantheon 37 Modern paint no-no 39 Droids 42 Feminine ending 44 Monopoly card listings 48 Has ___ (is connected) 49 Supply-and-demand subj. 50 Dodo 51 Yemeni capital 52 “___ how I roll” 54 Stick with a blue tip, maybe 55 “Blade” star Wesley 57 Casino staple 60 Skilled 61 “Weird, huh?” 65 Misplaces 66 Surprise winner 67 Diary part 68 Captain Hook’s sidekick 69 Small memory amount
Down
1 Alert for a fleeing prisoner, in brief 2 Account amount 3 Made possible 4 Veil material 5 You better believe it 6 Ambient musician Brian 7 Suffer 8 20, for 1/4 and 1/5, e.g.: Abbr. 9 Big name in stereo speakers 10 Fair 11 Personal music compilation 12 Hazardous mailing 13 Back-page menu item, maybe 15 Cousin of reggae 20 Overused 21 Carrier to Sweden 23 Warm up before exercising 24 Juan’s uncle 25 Lavish 28 Colorful Gulf Coast fish 29 Homie 36 Big track events 38 Bush press secretary Fleischer 39 Popular British brew 40 Endlessly 41 Like the pinky compared to the other
fingers 43 Burned ___ crisp 45 “Almost got me!” 46 One seeing the sites 47 Canonized woman of Fr. 53 Feature of a punk hairdo 56 Online crafts site 58 ___Kosh B’Gosh 59 Radio dial 61 Has too much, informally 62 Beaver’s construction 63 Hip-hop’s Dr. ___ 64 Gym shirt