NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Pop group whose name is also a rhyme scheme
5 Bit of dance instruction
9 ___ Xtra (soft drink)
13 Target of urban renewal 14 “Touched by an Angel” actress Downey 15 Calculations that may be given in square feet
17 Robot
19 Needle
20 ___ dish
21 Pioneering arcade game company 23 Capitalize on
24 Object commonly worn by someone under house arrest
27 Part of a buck
30 Pamper
31 Sheep’s sound
32 Word before we or flush
36 Greek H’s
39 One making a scene outdoors 43 Prefix meaning “inner”
44 Golf club designed to achieve loft 45 School fund-raising grp. 46 Explorer ___ the Red
49 Noted holder of 1,093 U.S. patents 51 Venus, for one
56 Edwards or Ramstein: Abbr. 57 Detest
58 Lollipop-sucking character of 1970s TV 62 What aftershave can do
64 Movie role with range … or what 17-, 24-, 39- and 51-Across each have? 66 Black tea variety
67 1993’s ___ Accords
68 “The Grapes of Wrath” migrator 69 Contents of a Facebook feed 70 Source for restaurant reviews 71 “What’s the ___?”
DOWN
1 “Stat!”
2 Pale ___ dot (Earth)
3 Ashtray item
4 Lacking a compass, say 5 Spanish Mrs.
6 A to Z
7 Hardly underplay
8 ___ Games (quadrennial event) 9 Green outer layer of a statue
10 Fury
11 Advice much seen in Cosmopolitan and Seventeen
12 Low voice
16 Fortuneteller
18 Rock experts?
22 Burglarize
25 McDonald’s founder Ray
26 “Yeah, right!”
27 Qualified
28 Bread baked in a tandoor 29 Conveyance for two
33 Rotate about an axis, as a plane 34 Bone smasher in the opening scene of “2001: A Space Odyssey” 35 Directed
37 Regarding
38 Kyle and Kenny’s friend on “South Park”
40 “___ the Explorer”
41 James who wrote “A Death in the Family”
42 Morning warning in a sailor’s saying 47 Since forever
48 Soviet spy agcy.
50 Type of crustacean whose name means “equal-footed”
51 Hoarse voice
52 Frequently
53 “How great,” sarcastically
54 Put out, as a fire
55 Fire ___
59 TV anchor Tapper
60 Operatic highlight
61 Producer of many compilation records 63 “Immediately!”
65 Steal, in slang