THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Medieval drudges 6 Word before shot or season 9 Imbecile 13 Gives a heads-up 15 Protection provided by military planes 17 Watch in astonishment 18 Scandal sur- rounding copy editors’ proofreading marks? 19 Scandal involving Tesla C.E.O. Musk? 21 Completely fine 22 Some hosp. tests 23 Facilitate 25 Storyteller Wilhelm or Jakob 28 Scandal affecting iPhone owners? 33 ___ Canyon Park (running spot in the Hollywood Hills) 35 Restaurant dip for bread 36 Do the breaststroke, say 37 N.Y.C. subway inits. 38 “Hamilton,” e.g. 41 Sleeve filler 42 Title on “Downton Abbey” 44 TV-watching room 45 Rink game 47 Scandal in the aftermath of a tsunami? 50 Removes, as a layer 51 Small, brown songbird 52 “Toodles!” 54 Words of sympathy 57 Scandal that implicates a detective? 61 Scandal depicted in “Avatar”? 64 “Amen to that!” 65 Popular strengthtraining program 66 Be a pilot 67 Warmonger 68 Shirt for a workout 69 Come after

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1 Wise one 2 Its inaugural flight was in 1948 3 Pickup that gets picked up, perhaps 4 Ally who’s not completely an ally 5 Aggressive manager for a child star 6 Lose vibrancy 7 Bit of fiction 8 Address you can’t enter into a GPS 9 Angled golf holes 10 Shape of the president’s office 11 Jared of “Dallas Buyers Club” 12 Long hike 14 Doe’s mate 16 Desist 20 Decidedly not-lax grp. at LAX 23 Filmdom’s “The Bible,” e.g. 24 Deity to 1.5+ billion 25 “Good ___!” 26 Nonurban 27 Course that might be labeled “101” 29 North, south, east or west 30 Up from bed 31 Ready for bed 32 TV’s “Oscars” 34 Wink accompanier 39 Actor Bean, whose first name looks like it rhymes with his last, but doesn’t 40 Frequent theme for Adele 43 Not having much chance of failure 46 “Much to my ___ …” 48 Bottom-of- thebarrel stuff 49 Hellenic “H” 53 Former Sanyo competitor 54 Ruler division 55 ___ mia (Italian term of endearment) 56 Declare assuredly 57 Head of the French department? 58 Ones helping a public prosecutor, for short 59 Ballerina’s wear 60 Olympics sword 62 Back on board 63 Suit accessory