The New York Times Crossword
No. 0427
ACROSS
1 The tiniest bit
8 Windbag?
15 International medical group that won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, literally
16 Characteristic of an interminable slog, literally
17 Radical
18 Like some batteries and baseball teams
19 Good to go
20 Film character who says “Donkey, two things, OK? Shut … up”
22 The Three Lions, on World Cup scoreboards
23 Absolute concentration, literally
27 Digression
30 Is no more
31 Lite
35 “Think harder!”
36 Netflix heroine Holmes
37 Alleviates pain a little … or what this puzzle does to certain squares for literal effect
43 Beach letters
44 Conscious of
45 Make lace
46 Charges lacking merit, literally
51 Passes out in front of a T.S.A. agent?
53 Separates from the mother ship, say
56 “Same”
57 Bird that becomes an emotion if an “r” is added to the front
58 “I’ll take that as
___”
59 “How entertaining!”
65 Mattel game with colorful cards
66 ___ Excellency
67 Some adult nightclub entertainers, literally
68 Sch. with satellite campuses in Salt Lake City and Jerusalem
69 Hosp. locales
70 Drag one’s feet
71 Held a session
DOWN
1 Throws in
2 Tender
3 Exam for a future OB/GYN
4 “___ not you …”
5 One of many in a Seurat painting
6 Useful information, metaphorically
7 Swear off
8 Things that may stand near thrones?
9 Mushroom in ramen
10 Sch. with a Big Easy medical center
11 Ad ___
12 Gawk at
13 “Say ___”
14 Kind of beetle
21 Tiny messenger
23 Together, musically
24 Actress Harper of “Tender Mercies”
25 Slavic name that’s an anagram of 12-Down
26 Zip
27 Some times, in brief
28 Bar on a dish
29 Traits that trigger repulsion
32 Some pedicure treatments
33 Spider in a garage, informally?
34 Chief justice before Hughes
38 Haunted house sound
39 Cassette background noise
40 Greenhouse gas regulator, for short
41 “Not you, too?!”
42 Slay
47 Dude in a jazz ensemble
48 Gaggles
49 Danish birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen
50 December drink
51 Source of more than half of the trout sold in the U.S.
52 Locale known for its slang
54 Endpoint of the Great Wildebeest Migration
55 Of heavy build
60 Laugh track bit
61 Actress de Armas
62 Channel for a cinephile
63 2/ 64 Link letters