NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tour de France leg
6 Showbiz grand slam
10 Potential con
14 Keen
15 Kin of King Kong
17 Homer’s self-satisfied assertion? 19 Aurora’s counterpart
20 Multinational insurance inits.
21 Kind of nut
22 Feasts, e.g.
25 Pours from one container to another 29 Bums, for example?
31 Court org.
33 Spanish article
34 Bug that no one likes
35 Yam source, historically?
40 Québec street
41 Egg: Prefix
42 Some raw materials
43 Place to find a comet?
48 Does the watusi, say
49 Laundry leftover
53 Steps on a scale?
54 That there
55 Sweetheart
56 Thoroughly … or a hint for parsing some
lowercase letters in four of this puzzle’s clues
62 Sensed without being sure 63 “Woo-hoo!”
64 Arabian port
65 Critical time
66 It may come in shells
DOWN
1 Waste line
2 Lake in the Sierra Nevada 3 Sounding shocked
4 Grok
5 Jazz Age, e.g. 6 Self-seeker
7 Subject of rationing in the old English
navy
8 Work started by London’s Philological
Soc.
9 Wood shop tool
10 Discriminatory compensation practice
11 Water monitoring grp.
12 Band with the 4x platinum albums “Out
of Time” and “Monster” 13 Pitchfork-shaped letter
16 Affect emotionally
18 Cat, in Córdoba
23 Bubbly source
24 Peruse
25 [Correct!]
26 Like some checking accounts
27 Poker snafus
28 Name that’s an alphabetic trio 30 Caesar dressing?
31 Shark’s racket
32 Pickle unit
36 Certain facial decoration
37 Currier and ___
38 Feature of many a Druid’s robe
39 Sea eagles
40 Onetime inits. on the Supreme Court 44 King of Saudi Arabia beginning in 2015
45 Hide away
46 Like a wide grin
47 Info on a security badge, for short 50 Falls into line
51 Diamond figure
52 Home country of the two-time Olympic
marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge 54 Facility often referred to by its first letter 56 Mortgage org.
57 “Sweet!”
58 It’s an honor
59 Derrière
60 Drench
61 “J to ___ L-O! The Remixes” (2002
album)