NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
NO. 0405
ACROSS
1 Animal that barks
4 Bourbon barrel material
7 Tribal leader
12 Blunder
13 ___ colada
15 List for a meeting
16 *Certain psychedelic experience
18 Nintendo game featuring balance exercises
19 ___ of the game
20 Early auto engine’s power source
22 Construction area, e.g.
23 Performs like Iggy Azalea
25 Social stratum
27 Provoke
30 Nevada city on the Truckee River
31 PC monitor type, in brief
34 *Hairstyle popularized by Lucille Ball
36 Hip-hop producer who founded Aftermath Entertainment
38 For two, in music
39 Jeans material
41 At the drop of ___ (instantly)
42 Drops in the mail
44 *Cheap neighborhood bar
46 Bygone Mach 1 breaker, for short
47 Major water line
49 Hang around idly
50 “Wanna join us?”
52 Fairy tale bear with a hard bed
53 Delivery room instruction
55 Put on hold
57 Religious sisters
61 Real lowlife
63 “So there!” … or what you can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues?
65 Looks without blinking
66 Ship personnel
67 Number of Q tiles in Scrabble
68 Item that may be baked or mashed, informally
69 Caustic solution
70 Ingredient in a Denver omelet
DOWN
1 College faculty head
2 Whale that preys on octopuses
3 Worrisome, as news
4 Make a pick
5 Cockpit reading
6 Makes a scarf, say
7 FX in much sci-fi and fantasy
8 Bank holdup
9 *Bunt single, e.g.
10 Heading in a word processing menu
11 Destiny
14 Gibbon or gorilla
15 “Geez, that sucks!”
17 Expressed contempt for
21 Like vinegar
24 Falcons, on scoreboards
26 Roll for a greenskeeper
27 “No bid from me”
28 Connection points
29 *Home of many a courthouse
30 Talk too long
32 Yearn for
33 Scare off
35 Pop singer Dion
37 Visibly elated
40 Nonsense
43 Home of the George W. Bush Institute, in brief
45 Hack (off)
48 Capitol Hill staffers
51 Busiest airport in the Midwest
52 Oyster’s creation
53 “Hey, over here!”
54 ___ Beauty (Sephora competitor)
56 Org. that monitors consumer scams
58 “Here comes trouble …”
59 Mama’s mama
60 Part of a cherry you don’t eat
62 Gen ___ (millennial’s follower)
64 Ovine mother