NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 They may be switched while cycling 6 Shorthand
pro
11 Crossword
solver’s cry
14 Deity with 99
names
15 Raphael, Gabriel or Michael
17 Cradlin’ a Salinger protagonist? 19 Preserve, as
ashes
20 Vodka brand,
informally
21 “Footloose” star cookin’ a fresh batch of brownies?
26 “Need an ark? I Noah guy,” and others
27 Blond at the
bar, say
28 Letters on a luxury handbag
29 Chips brand 31 Sentence … or something found in a sentence
33 Did so-so at
school
34 The Great Emancipator sharin’ URLs on his blog? 40 Cover for illicit
activity
41 “Right on!” 43 “I don’t want to hear the gory details” 46 ___-C.I.O.
49 Strands in a cell
50 Four-time Grammy winner India.___
51 Bein’ in debt to a “Wedding Crashers” costar?
54 Some burrowing mouselike rodents
56 One-point Scrabble draw
57 Massachusetts senator wagin’ conflict?
63 Houseplant that some think brings luck and prosperity 64 One in 1,000?
65 Beat it!
66 Bee teem?
67 Internet admin
DOWN
1 Cry of frustration
2 Chess rating system
3 ___ fours
4 Minute hands, essentially
5 Climb (up), as
a pole
6 Related to
religious rites 7 Sedative in a blowgun dart, informally
8 Old French
coin
9 Org. for Ducks and Penguins
10 Bunglers
11 Get too old to
qualify
12 “Over my
dead body!” 13 Hugo-winning “Hothouse” author Brian 16 Particularly
particular
18 Pencil
remnants
21 Actress
Dennings
22 Philosopher Zeno’s birthplace
23 Crow, but not
magpie
24 “American
___”
25 “Moi? Never!” 30 Went on, as an
errand
32 Gotham City supervillain in a cryogenic suit
33 Intl. standard used by many astrologers 35 Amount to
36 Our genus
37 Freshly
38 Roadside bombs, for short
39 One-billionth:
Prefix
42 Solo in
spaceflight? 43 “I need a
hero!”
44 Computer language that sounds like a literary intro
45 Under the
weather
46 “Ode to Joy,” for the European Union
47 Texter’s “I
think”
48 New Hampshire state flowers
52 Bury
53 The “L” of Samuel L. Jackson
55 Declares
58 As an aside, in
a text
59 The “E” of
B.C.E.
60 Info in an apt.
listing
61 Texter’s “I
think”
62 Catch some
Z’s