THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Happening after doors open on Black Friday

8 Draw

15 Colorful circles

16 Ronan of “Lady Bird”

17 1982 movie starring Julie Andrews

19 Elicited with difficulty

20 Some mortgage adjustments, in brief

23 Run, old-style

24 Skeletons in the closet, so to speak

28 To be, overseas

29 Tighten (up)

31 Money holder

32 Swimmer Ian who won three gold medals in the

2000 Olympics

34 Japanese floor mat

36 Helpful people to know

37 Warning sign

41 Triple ___

42 Collegiate basketball competition, for short

43 Like Natalie Portman, by birth

44 It ended during the Napoleonic Wars: Abbr.

45 Kind of switch

47 Label owned by Sony Music

48 Good earth

50 Formerly

51 Its second ed. contains about 59 million words

52 Miss the mark

53 1% alternative

55 Like many radios

57 A long way off

60 Common signoff

61 Source of the word “kiwi”

62 River draining

11 countries

63 8:00-9:00 p.m. in prime time, e.g.

64 Deduce

65 Down in the dumps

66 Go down, in a way

67 Like many A.T.M.s

68 Primetime ___

DOWN

1 Western Conference player, informally

2 Shapiro of public radio

3 World AIDS Day mo.

4 More eccentric

5 Soothing succulents

6 1986 #1 Starship hit with the lyric “I’ll never find another girl like you”

7 Third-person pronoun

8 Parenthesized comments

9 Food truck offering, maybe

10 Figure, as a sum

11 It may be read to the rowdy

12 Sheet music abbr.

13 Hit CBS series with three spinoffs

14 Spill the ___ (dish out gossip)

18 Line on a leaf

20 Holder of many cones

21 Like some cuisines

22 2008 movie starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella

25 Movie with graphic violence … or what 17-Across,

22-Down or 39Down each is?

26 Some board game equipment

27 Jazzes (up)

29 Souvenir shop purchases

30 List shortcut

33 Information on a ticket

35 Light on one’s feet

38 “ER” role for Paul McCrane

39 1997 movie starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage

40 Like many pipes nowadays

46 Knock down

49 Like butterscotch

53 Annual Austin festival, for short

54 ___ nut

55 Dictator deposed in 1979

56 Swampland, e.g.

58 Many a university donor, informally

59 “Ratatouille” rat