NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Skilled
6 What’s more
10 “Once ___ a time …”
14 “___ got a deal for you!”
15 Apply, as plaster
16 Repellent
17 First of a series of sci-fi movies starring Sigourney Weaver
18 10:1, for example
19 Computer command for the error-prone
20 Actor who has hosted the Oscars nine times, a number second only to Bob Hope
23 Something stubbed
24 Powerful explosive 28 Baseball’s ___ Joe DiMaggio 32 Watchdog org.?
34 Wrath
35 Sound of danger
36 He played Gomez in 1991’s “The Addams Family”
38 Prefix with -zoic 39 Tube-shaped pasta
40 Geese formations
41 Comic actor who was an original cast member of SCTV
43 Swiss capital, to French speakers 44 India pale ___
45 Affectedly creative
46 Wild animals
47 Club Med, for one
49 The “f” of fwiw
50 Beginning of a rom-com … or a description of 20-, 36- and 41-Across? 57 In fine fettle
60 College in New Rochelle, N.Y. 61 Bert’s pal on “Sesame Street” 62 Word of woe 63 Thumbs-down votes 64 Repeated short bits in jazz 65 Agree (with)
66 Itsy-bitsy biter
67 Units of nautical speed
DOWN
1 Melville captain
2 Limp watch painter
3 Satanic
4 Rind
5 Dickens lad who says “God bless us every one!”
6 Worship
7 ___ Gaga
8 Soap bubbles
9 ___ course (part of boot camp) 10 Throat dangler
11 Wrestling win
12 Outdated
13 & 21 Military hawk
22 Key of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7: Abbr.
25 Many flooring installers
26 Show the ropes to 27 Alternatives to purchases 28 Preserves preserver
29 World Cup chant
30 Mascara is applied to them 31 1982 Disney film 32 Devastating hurricane of 2012 33 Pint-size
36 $2,000, if you land on Boardwalk with a hotel
37 Iris’s place
39 Spring break activity in Miami Beach or Cabo
42 Beloved, in “Rigoletto”
43 Crazy
46 Web crawler
48 Way overweight 49 Thanksgiving meal
51 Haunted house sound
52 New Age singer from Ireland
53 ___ and bear it
54 Help desk offering
55 Fissure
56 What 1 is to 2 and 2 is to 3 57 Journey to Mecca 58 “Aladdin” prince
59 Chemist’s workplace