THE NEW YORK CROSSWORD

Across 1 Tick off 5 Wash 10 Mimics 14 Skunk’s defense 15 Under way 16 Attract, as an

audience 17 Dickens wrote one about two cities 18 They’re frowned

upon 19 What an office

seeker seeks 20 Blockheaded 22 In medias ___ 23 Human or

kangaroo 24 Red salmon 26 Not a pretty

sight 28 Cleaning

substance 29 Banded marbles 30 Most negligible 33 Currently 36 Sports org. in a

1976 merger 37 Blow away 38 Leased 39 Sticks out 43 Showily stylish 46 River on the Texas/ Louisiana border 47 Hightailed it 48 & 50 Dutch painter represented by this puzzle’s circled letters 54 Warning at a

station 55 Cairo- to- Addis

Ababa dir. 57 It used to be called the Hermit Kingdom 58 Evidence of a

ship’s passing 59 Be sassy, with

“off” 61 Fateful day in

March 62 Ovine mothers 63 Cream of the

crop 64 Wasp’s home 65 “___ we forget” 66 Indian emblem 67 “Pardon me, would you have any ___ Poupon?”

Down 1 Applesauce maker 2 The 43rd state 3 Kind of acid in breakfast cereal 4 Something redheads tend to do 5 Outlaw 6 In front of, oldstyle 7 Kind of deafness 8 Slammer 9 Flying saucer fliers, for short 10 Counseled 11 Season- ending events on “The Bachelor” 12 “Peter Peter

Pumpkin ___” 13 Writer Stieg

Larsson, e. g. 21 People are always searching for them 23 Alpha- gamma

connector 25 Still 27 Go slightly off

course 29 Win by ___ 30 Chinese

chairman 31 Opposite of rise 32 Rodent- eating

reptiles 34 “You’re calling

because …?” 35 Messy dorm

room, say 37 Broke off from a

group 40 Most risqué 41 “Deutschland

___ Alles” 42 What a lot of

partiers make 43 ___ Angelico 44 Long and lean 45 Not stopping 48 “I’d like to buy a

___, Pat” 49 Deeply

impressed 50 Sting Ray, e. g.,

informally 51 “Large pepperoni with extra cheese,” e. g. 52 V- formation fliers 53 Overly quick 56 Diamonds, e. g. 59 Shook hands

with, say 60 What a seamstress may take up