N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Classic MTV show that launched a film franchise 8 Common recyclable 15 Firm, in a way 16 “Fifty Shades of Grey,” e.g. 17 Certain fair fare 18 Involving crystals and incense, say 19 “I just knew it!” 20 Cause of death in the Sherlock Holmes novel “The Sign of the Four” 22 “___ Meets Godzilla” (classic film short) 25 Ending with slug or gab 26 Break 29 Part of the Constitution establishing the executive branch 32 Where I-80 crosses the Missouri River 34 Narrative through multiple TV episodes 37 Caught 38 Sighting from a crow’snest 39 Con 41 Lift at a resort 42 Do a favor for 44 Numerical trio 46 Rude one in an audience 47 Diagram at a business meeting 48 Disseminate 49 “Then again …,” in texts 51 Ankle bones 55 Protagonist in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” 58 Mary ___ Evans, real name of George Eliot 59 Big name in online dating 62 “Sure, makes sense” 65 Video game controller that uses gesture recognition 66 Johannes Gutenberg, for one 67 Voice actor for Carl in “Up” 68 Witchcraft … or what each block of three black squares in this puzzle represents?
DOWN
1 ___ deGrom, two-time Cy Young Award winner (2018 and 2019) 2 Hello or goodbye 3 Obsolescent storage device 4 “Jeopardy!” genius Jennings 5 “Then what happened …?” 6 What red might mean 7 ___ lily 8 Dojo master 9 Black-andwhite stack 10 “___ Abbey” 11 Slightly 12 Smoke 13 Number one starter 14 House call? 21 Lifesaving prosthetic 23 Subpar performance? 24 Like the planet Hoth in “The Empire Strikes Back” 26 Classic leading lady honored on both U.S. and Swedish postage 27 Leading 28 Father 30 Delinquent 31 Be off base 33 Powdered green tea leaves 34 Sorts who might wipe their mouths with their sleeves 35 Off-limits 36 Turned up just a little 37 Distort 40 ___-Magnon (early human) 43 Company with a great deal of advertising? 45 Not just think 47 Hay, say 50 Opposite of original 52 One with dreads, maybe 53 Nasty look 54 Like neon 55 Doesn’t remember the words, say 56 “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” org. 57 Prefix with watt 59 Be short 60 Josh 61 Its HQ contains a sculpture with a stillunsolved coded message 63 Title reportedly turned down by Stephen Hawking 64 Sign