The New York Times
No. 0201
ACROSS
1 Zeroes, in soccer 5 Comedic
takedown
10 Includes
13 Peak of
revelation?
14 Happen next
15 Lead-in to -cide 16 *A little bit of
everything
18 Org. whose initials omit its “E” (for “Explosives”)
19 Lousy (with)
20 Instrument with
a bell
21 First Muslim Nobel Laureate (1978)
23 Character with a famous opening line?
25 Resolve
26 Exposes personal information about online, informally
27 Cultured dessert
option
30 Former Yankee
nickname
31 Crown, in Persian 33 *1957 hit by the Edsels with a nonsense title
35 Depot: Abbr.
38 Indian spice
mixes
40 Cue preceder
41 *”Eventually ...” 43 Casual rejection 45 So
46 Adolph who purchased The New York Times in 1896
48 Potentially
offensive, say 52 Prepare for a
kiss, perhaps
54 Home of some of the best drivers in No. America
56 Actress Juliette 57 Middling
59 Risk-taker’s
mantra, in brief 60 Hoppy inits.
61 Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle’s starred clues
64 Cause of some
head-scratching 65 “You shouldn’t
have!”
66 Randy looks
67 Appreciated, as a
joke
68 Overly involved 69 Campus health
and safety org.
DOWN
1 Ex ___ (from
nothing: Lat.)
2 Up the creek
3 “Past post” wager at the track, e.g.
4 One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills”
5 Winged mammal with rust-colored fur
6 Not snookered by 7 Arthur with a statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue
8 Appeal, as for
peace 9 Like the responses of “yes” or “no”
10 Journey of the
mind
11 Have no
co-conspirators 12 Gradual
transition, in art 13 Very valuable
violin, informally 17 Bean or noodle 22 Marginally
24 “Me, too!”
25 Brotherly
greeting
28 Depression
precursor
29 ___ Harbour, Fla. 32 Cured Spanish
meat 34 Sitting
meditation pose 35 Sign of an injury,
maybe
36 Artoo’s partner 37 Measure of energy savings, as when the meter runs in reverse
39 1/3,600th of a
deg.
42 Literature Nobelist Morrison
44 Extra-sweaty meditative exercise
47 Kind of sense
49 Like 20, for Little
League
50 Like wood prepped for papermaking
51 Sects’ symbol?
53 Subject covered in a madrasa
55 Possible hurdle for getting a master’s, for short
57 Gets hard to see through, in a way, with “up”
58 Does impressions of
62 Need to pay 63 L.A.P.D. head?