NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Containers at chocolate factories 5 Southern city just south of a national forest with the same name
10 Shout after a stressful week
14 Mrs. Peacock’s game
15 Cello bow application
16 Plead with, say
17 Fire hydrant attachment 18 Managed to irk
19 It’s a big blow
20 Pixar’s “Monsters, ___”
21 Orally
23 Nonverbal “yes”
24 R&B singer Bryson
26 ___ Levin, author of “Rosemary’s Baby” 27 Windows precursor 29 Undergraduate law deg. 30 Nothing
31 Clumsy fellow
32 Egg ___ yung (Chinese dish) 33 Newborn horses
35 “This instant!”
37 Make an approach like a bird of prey 39 Common churchyard conifer 42 Destiny
43 Spiritual center, in yoga
44 Look for
45 ___-Man
48 “Nothing for me, thanks”
49 Adm. Horatio Nelson, for one 52 Superexcited
55 Glowing bit in a fire
56 Aborted plan
60 Rorschach test shape
61 Show leniency toward
62 “The very ___!” 63 No-brainer?
64 Freak out
65 Champagne bottle stopper 66 “Truer words have never been spoken!”
67 Thus far 68 It “marches on its stomach,” per Napoleon
DOWN
1 TV blocking device 2 Companionless
3 Where the Crimson Tide play
4 Lay eyes on 5 Out-of-control revelry
6 Get a close-up of by camera
7 City almost at the end of the Columbia River
8 In a ceremonial manner 9 Hard-to-undo tie
10 Yank
11 Red River Valley city in the upper Midwest
12 House that’s cool to live in?
13 Puts money in, as a meter
21 Go up and down, as a buoy
22 Plan for hosp. patients
25 State university city in the Midwest 28 Sunny city with a famous pier 32 “Here are my thoughts,” online 33 Something thrown in frustration 34 1/60 of a min.
36 Used to be 37 Calypso-influenced genre
38 “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” org. 40 Fan sound
41 Consume
45 Argentine grassland
46 Original eastern terminus of the Erie Canal
47 French sweetie
50 Italian motor scooter
51 Not hunched over
52 Group with the hit “Waterloo” 53 Grab (onto)
54 Exude, as charm
57 Musk, e.g.
58 Infection cause
59 Tasting of wood, as some chardonnays