NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Needing some kneading, say 5 Language in which a nutty person might be told “Yer bum’s oot the windae”
10 Hunting store purchase 14 Hook’s henchman
15 Stamp holder
16 Birthday ___
17 Basic idea
18 Items that are hard to throw away? 20 Remedy 22 Troublemaker of 1-Down 23 Important piece in échecs 24 Money-collecting org.
25 Word included to prevent libel, say 28 Rough write-up
30 Ballet basic
31 Losing tic-tac-toe row
32 Cry of dismay in 5-Across 34 Singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey ___
35 Landed
36 Work suggested by this puzzle’s circled and shaded squares 41 Strongly advocate
42 -: Abbr.
43 One of the Kennedys 44 Pudding flavor
45 Big name in in-flight internet 46 ___ Nadu (Indian state) 50 America ___, star of TV’S “Ugly Betty”
52 Extinct flightless bird 54 Lead-in to puncture 55 Actress Chaplin
56 Like an unused air mattress 58 That’s gnus to me! 61 Shortcoming
62 Word before rich or talk
63 Rent
64 Swiss Alp next to Lake Lucerne 65 Just OK
66 Small and pointy-eared, perhaps 67 What “exaggerated” is sometimes misspelled with
DOWN
1 Mythical realm accessible only by the rainbow bridge Bifrost
2 Key to this puzzle’s theme? 3 Greek goddess of the hearth 4 Sight on Disney World’s Expedition Everest ride
5 Flavor: Sp.
6 Sticks together
7 Instrument featured in 36-Across 8 Rum ___ Tugger (“Cats” cat)
9 Most foul
10 Up
11 Puttering around?
12 Flavor enhancer 13 Exclamations of surprise
19 Credit line?
21 Leave behind
25 ___ Freed, early radio personality who coined the term “rock ’n’ roll”
26 It takes people out
27 Biblical verb
29 What the opening motif of 36-Across is said to represent
30 Response to “Grazie!”
33 Epithet for a judge
35 Lover of Radames, in opera 36 Muscly
37 Tribe that fought the Iroquois 38 Servings with sweet-and-sour sauce 39 Summer Triangle star
40 ___ position
45 Something editable using CRISPR technology
47 Oscar winner Marlee 48 Cooling-off period?
49 First name of this puzzle’s dedicatee, born December 1770
51 Copland ballet with a hoedown 52 Longtime star of F.C. Barcelona
53 A lot
56 What 49-Down became in later life 57 Prefix with Cuban
58 Ill. neighbor
59 Formal “yes”
60 Reef predator