NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 1975 thriller film with three sequels 5 Word after Peace or press
10 “___ arigato, Mr. Roboto”
14 Lure
15 Kind of acid
16 Don Juan’s mother 17 Going-out-of-business event 18 Muscat resident
19 1960s band with a car-related name, with “the”
20 Winter whiteness
23 Longtime music director of La Scala and the New York Philharmonic
24 & 27 Slippery hazard
31 Tellers of tales
32 With 37-Across, metaphor for comfort 35 Already
36 Photo ___
37 See 32-Across
40 Navy noncom
41 Impressionist
43 Talked at length
44 Shell
45 Terse refusal
47 Spooks
49 Their crooning may cause swooning 53 1989 Best Picture nominee … with a hint to 20-, 24-/27- and 32-/37-Across 57 Like certain transportation pricing 58 Emmy- and Tony-winning Arthur 59 Sharp
61 Streaming component
62 Word often misused in place of “lie” 63 Big name in timekeeping
64 Moves along
65 Trauma ctrs.
66 Brushed (away)
DOWN
1 Law school graduates, in brief 2 Spirited horse
3 Where stucco is stuck 4 Common clothing item … or what you might become when wearing it 5 Does the dishes?
6 Ancient Mexican
7 Rodeo rope
8 Attach, as a boutonniere
9 Any movie with ETS
10 Give distinction to
11 Able to see right through
12 Copy cats?
13 Abbr. in a birth announcement 21 “That’s wrong!”
22 Hoity-toity types
24 Memorial ___ Kettering (N.Y.C. hospital)
25 Big body in Africa
26 Alleviated
28 Sustain, as expenses
29 Thicket
30 Some “Star Wars” merchandise 32 Word after sports, training or pushup
33 Section of geological history
34 Brit. award
38 Made available, with “up” 39 Expressionist James 42 Company that’s RAD on the New York Stock Exchange
44 Flips out
46 Section of a string section 48 Brushes (away)
50 Righteous
51 “What concerns me is …” 52 Launch times
53 Only digit in the ZIP code for Newton Falls, Ohio
54 Prefix with China
55 Drug ___
56 Part of a process
57 Sound of a lightning bolt
60 Part of many an office phone no.