NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 They may be switched while cycling 6 Shorthand pro
11 Crossword solver’s cry
14 Deity with 99 names
15 Raphael, Gabriel or Michael
17 Cradlin’ a Salinger protagonist? 19 Preserve, as ashes
20 Vodka brand, informally
21 “Footloose” star cookin’ a fresh batch of
brownies?
26 “Need an ark? I Noah guy,” and others
27 Blond at the bar, say
28 Letters on a luxury handbag
29 Chips brand
31 Sentence … or something found in a
sentence
33 Did so-so at school
34 The Great Emancipator sharin’ URLS on
his blog?
40 Cover for illicit activity
41 “Right on!”
43 “I don’t want to hear the gory details” 46 ___-C.I.O.
49 Strands in a cell
50 Four-time Grammy winner India.___ 51 Bein’ in debt to a “Wedding Crashers”
co-star?
54 Some burrowing mouselike rodents 56 One-point Scrabble draw
57 Massachusetts senator wagin’ conflict? 63 Houseplant that some think brings luck
and prosperity
64 One in 1,000?
65 Beat it!
66 Bee teem?
67 Internet admin
DOWN
1 Cry of frustration 2 Chess rating system 3 ___fours 4 Minute hands, essentially
5 Climb (up), as a pole
6 Related to religious rites
7 Sedative in a blowgun dart, informally 8 Old French coin
9 Org. for Ducks and Penguins 10 Bunglers
11 Get too old to qualify
12 “Over my dead body!”
13 Hugo-winning “Hothouse” author Brian 16 Particularly particular
18 Pencil remnants
21 Actress Dennings
22 Philosopher Zeno’s birthplace
23 Crow, but not magpie
24 “American ___”
25 “Moi? Never!”
30 Went on, as an errand
32 Gotham City supervillain in a cryogenic
suit
33 Intl. standard used by many astrologers
35 Amount to
36 Our genus
37 Freshly
38 Roadside bombs, for short 39 One-billionth: Prefix
42 Solo in spaceflight?
43 “I need a hero!”
44 Computer language that sounds like a
literary intro
45 Under the weather
46 “Ode to Joy,” for the European Union
47 Texter’s “I think”
48 New Hampshire state flowers
52 Bury
53 The “L” of Samuel L. Jackson
55 Declares
58 As an aside, in a text
59 The “E” of B.C.E.
60 Info in an apt. listing
61 Texter’s “I think”
62 Catch some Z’s