NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tavern
4 Fabled loser to a tortoise
8 Go searching for food
14 Flabbergast
15 German auto make
16 Ways to travel
17 Young fellow
18 What you should take dubious advice with
20 “If I’m wrong, I’ll eat ___!” 22 School support grp.
23 Every family has one
24 Dry, as a desert
26 “That’s not true!”
29 What a complete fool lacks 32 G.M. car no longer sold new 33 Tennis umpire’s call 34 Offered for breeding, as a derby winner 38 Letter between oh and cue 39 Toilet paper layer
40 College application fig.
41 Red ___ beet 42 Passover celebrations 44 Dove’s sound
45 Squeaks (by) 46 Shylock’s harsh demand, in “The Merchant of Venice” 49 Leaked, as an old faucet 51 Government disaster org. 52 Greek war god
53 “Right you ___!” 55 Colorado skiing mecca
58 What “it” may hit you like 62 Before, in poetry 63 Concert gear handler 64 Brand of basketballs 65 Classic symphonic rock group, for short 66 Claim to be true
67 Odds’ counterpart 68 Documentarian Burns
DOWN
1 Chapstick, e.g.
2 What a robber hopes to get?
3 How robbers can get caught 4 Immobilize with rope, in a way 5 Month after Mar. 6 Harvest 7 Snobbish sort
8 To and ___ 9 “Ouch!”
10 Steals cattle 11 Maker of the game Centipede 12 Cosmetic goop 13 Toward sunrise: Sp.
19 ___ the Great of children’s literature
21 Paths of falling stars 25 Gets all pretty 27 Quickly and loudly detach 28 “The Thin Man” dog 29 Klutz’s cry
30 1997 title role for Peter Fonda 31 Funny Tina 35 Glimpse furtively 36 Baking soda has lots of them 37 Sprint
39 Skull, for Hamlet when he says “Alas, poor Yorick!” 40 When repeated, infant’s sound 43 Any one of nine “Star Wars” films 44 Obsolescent laptop component 45 Things that suffered a 20thcentury blight
47 Close by
48 Eats royally
49 Bit on a baby’s bib 50 Kidney-related 52 Gillette razor option 54 M.B.A. class subj. 56 Mystery writer ___ Stanley Gardner
57 One of the noble gases 59 ___ Newton (cookie)
60 Q: Why is a flower like the letter A? A: Because a ___ goes after it
61 Joke (around)