NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Salmon or sole 5 Somersault
9 Rough on the eyes or ears 14 “Fancy seeing you here!”
15 Ages and ages
16 The same
17 Chicken pen
18 AB C D E F G
20 Fitting
21 Merriment
22 Longtime Time magazine rival, briefly 23 AB C D F
27 Opposite of ’neath
28 Slippery 1-Across
29 Hay storage areas
33 Plan that’s “hatched” 36 Campbell’s container
38 Narrow inlet
39 B C F H I K N O P S U V W Y
43 Have a bug, maybe
44 French affirmative
45 Stops
46 Bundles of hay
49 Strands in a cell?
51 Not the main choice: Abbr.
52 G RX
57 Taj Mahal material
60 “My Country, ___ of Thee”
61 Glass of “This American Life”
62 AB O
65 Jump in an ice rink
66 Cottage or cabin
67 ___ of Sandwich
68 Gardening tools
69 Lecherous figure of myth
70 Eye affliction
71 Paul who sang “Eso Beso”
DOWN
1 Centrally located 2 “Fingers crossed!” 3 Utterly ruined, informally 4 Cool
5 Longest and strongest bone in the human body
6 Take it easy
7 Drop-___ (surprise visitors)
8 It comes between chi and omega 9 Fairy tale character who leaves a trail of bread crumbs in the forest
10 King of Naples in “The Tempest” 11 Bar mitzvah or communion 12 Distort, as data
13 Gas company famous for its toy trucks 19 Cow’s chew
21 Physicist Enrico
24 Swarm (with)
25 Lie back
26 “Sad to say …”
30 Play and film about a 1977 series of interviews with a former president 31 One of a hundred in Scrabble 32 Impudence
33 Sign of healing
34 ___ Pet (1980s fad item)
35 Prefix with conscious or freak
37 Big Apple inits.
40 Car with the slogan “Truth in engineering”
41 Butcher’s offerings
42 East Indies tourist destination 47 Exemplify
48 Electrician’s alloy
50 Major highway
53 One who’s back from war, informally 54 Bridal path
55 “It’s all ___ to me”
56 Spicy dance or dip
57 Some Wharton degs.
58 Jessica of “Sin City”
59 Yam or turnip
63 Affirmative
64 Reassuring touch
65 Cry upon getting a tough crossword clue