NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Bit in a fish tank
5 June celebrant, for short
9 Having trouble with
14 Repeating segment of computer code 15 Q5 or Q7
16 Lump in one’s throat
17 Well-behaved sister?
19 Lustrous fabrics
20 “That doesn’t seem right”
21 Dangerous virus
22 Cuba ___ (cocktail)
23 Evidence of a cat fight?
26 Quite distant
28 Insult, informally
29 Spring sound
31 Serious damage to one’s reputation 34 “Westworld” airer
37 TV bleep?
40 Devious
41 Like chlorine gas
42 Swarm
43 Important ID
44 Dangerous things to do at busy intersections
45 Impolite press conference attendees? 53 Casanova’s desire
54 Critic with raised or lowered thumbs 55 Nincompoop
58 ___ New Guinea
59 Part of the queen’s tea service?
61 Fix, as text
62 Religious leader usually sporting a beard 63 Up for something
64 Dangerous
65 Unsupportive votes
66 What teens do that most twentysomethings don’t
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1 “Real dogs eat meat” sloganeer 2 Title for Voldemort 3 Tinker Bell, e.g.
4 Google Maps, for one
5 About whom Bette Davis said “Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft” 6 Extended sentence?
7 21+
8 Alice’s cat in “Through the LookingGlass”
9 Small Eurasian songbird
10 Makes use (of)
11 Disney’s fourth animated feature film 12 Final Oldsmobile model 13 Alternative to a truncheon
18 Suffix with mountain
24 Some catering equipment
25 Falco of “The Sopranos” 26 Fundamentals
27 Word with weather or ball 30 Prepares
31 Part of two major-league team names 32 Numerical prefix
33 A firecracker goes in one
34 Goes by livery taxi 35 Hairstyling factor
36 111 things?
38 Roadwork indicator
39 Take the show on the road 43 William who co-wrote “The Elements of Style”
45 Elaborate theft, in movies
46 Taste quality
47 Know the ___
48 TV chef Jacques
49 U.S. president with the most southerly birthplace
50 Circuit section
51 Some light rail options
52 And so on, briefly 56 Competition with minimal apparel 57 Send out a jet
60 Dinosaur’s starting place