THE YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Note: Parts of 15 answers in this puzzle are missing, in a manner for you to discover.

Across

1 Company’s numero uno 7 Bit of dance attire for Fred Astaire 10 Elite 14 Toyota sedan 15 Recipient of three consecutive Hart Trophies 16 About 17 Arsenal, so to

speak 19 Opening word of many an Italian letter 20 Kind of coach:

Abbr. 21 Reveled in 23 Bypass 26 Bitter and sweet 28 Key ___ 29 & 30 They

started in 1969 34 Some shot

targets 36 User of night

vision 37 One- named pop

star 38 Oil source 39 Midnight to 4

a. m., at sea 41 In the 40s? 42 Whups 44 Debt doc 45 Harriet Beecher

Stowe novel 46 ___ verte ( green

earth pigment) 47 Early 26thcentury year 48 Certain joint 49 Wrigley product 51 Certain gifts in “The 12 Days of Christmas” 53 Trademarked

sanitary wipes 56 Word with belt or

tape 58 Michigan college 59 Boom- causing,

perhaps 64 Fabulist 65 ___- pitch 66 What Cowboy legend Tom Landry sported 67 Often- flooded

locale 68 Hit a low point 69 Starfish or sea

cucumber, e. g.

Down

1 Writing in a box 2 Many a Monopoly property: Abbr. 3 Pile 4 Following ___ 5 Like the origin of the names for some days of the week 6 Pantry problem 7 ___ polloi 8 Check 9 Nottingham’s river 10 Dish often

served in a shell 11 “My word!” 12 To be, at the

Louvre 13 Way less

traveled 18 Capital whose name comes from an Algonquin word for “to trade” 22 Jump on a stage 23 Drug drawback 24 1958 hit that won the firstever Grammy for Song of the Year 25 Rehab candidate 27 Like the highest

high 29 Disseminates 31 Fictional

plantation owner 32 Kowtows, say 33 One way to ride

a horse 35 Port alternative 37 Feng ___ 40 Overindulge 43 Words after

count or let 47 “Star Trek”

helmsman 50 Painter’s

preparation 51 “Check it out” 52 Lyric poem 53 Tire part 54 “The South- Sea

House” essayist 55 No friend of the

bootlegger 57 “Carmina Burana” composer 60 What a big hand

often grabs? 61 Make a little

mistake 62 Source of heat 63 Brandy cocktail