NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Adhering to old-fashioned modesty 5 Congeal, as blood
9 Gate closer
14 Green precious stone
15 Years and years and years 16 Honolulu hello 17 *Game-quickening timer in basketball
19 Arabian Peninsula nation 20 Charlotte ___ (rich dessert) 21 Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush 22 Food unit counted by a dieter 25 Budgetary excess
26 Golf ball propper-upper 27 Columbus campus, briefly 28 *Snowbirds’ destination 30 Cartoondom’s Olive ___
31 Wealth
33 Tie, as figure skates
35 Clobber in the ring
36 Weirdo
37 Miss America accessory 40 President saying “No!”
43 Utter failure
45 Govt. of the Rebs
47 *Long vegetable with a yellow pod 49 Game of pursuit
50 Take part in 49-Across
51 Mel honored in Cooperstown 52 Ships’ direction controllers 54 Mischievous
56 Spunk
57 Small food fish
58 List of popular songs … or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues
62 Hairlike projections on cells 63 Wagner’s “Liebestod,” e.g. 64 Something an arrested person tries to
“make”
65 Playful river animal
66 Some “big” burgers
67 Reb’s foe
DOWN
1 Nighttime wear, familiarly 2 Cheerleader’s cry
3 Words solemnly sworn
4 Subway system
5 Swede who developed a temperature scale
6 Ease up on
7 Without repetition
8 Sound of disapproval 9 Purchase for a newborn 10 “Jeopardy!” host Trebek 11 *Marinara sauce thickener
12 Vice president between
Gore and Biden
13 Fairy tale boy who outsmarts a witch 18 Mean witch’s pronouncement
21 Soft mineral
22 Bottle stopper
23 Landmass bounded by a mountain chain and three oceans 24 *Dispenser of psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown
25 Notable achievement
29 Book jacket write-up
32 What might turn up dirt on someone? 34 Stars-and-stripes land, for short 36 Call at a deli or barbershop
38 What psychological trauma may leave 39 Swine
41 Like a midlevel general or a so-so movie 42 Hippocratic ___
43 Social gaffe
44 “Slumdog Millionaire” setting 45 Cooking oil brand
46 Peak
48 Steamy
53 Churchill Downs event
55 1970s tennis champ Nastase 56 Sorvino of “Mighty Aphrodite” 58 Overly theatrical type 59 Motorists’ org.
60 Racket
61 Animal with a rack