N.Y.TimesCrosswordPuzzle
Across
1 King or queen 4 Record six-time N.B.A. M.V.P. 15 Northeast sch. in the Liberty League 16 Rather caricatured 17 Understanding responses 18 One involved in a pyramid scheme? 19 Broke down, say 21 End of a Hemingway title 22 Fleck on the banjo 23 Atlanta train system 25 Drink often served chilled 27 Bert’s sister in children’s literature 28 Dandy headpieces 31 Catch 33 Excessively harsh 35 Philadelphia train system 39 Trio in Greek myth 40 New Deal org. 41 Pope John Paul II’s first name 42 Was out 43 Aida in “Aida,” e.g. 45 Go preceder 47 Unsightly spots 48 Country music’s ___ Brown Band 51 Digs 53 Early customer of Boeing 54 Old Testament kingdom 56 Like the cities Yazd and Shiraz 59 Transport method usually used in the winter 61 One who can see right through you? 64 Author Chinua Achebe, by birth 65 Back-to-back hits 66 “Kate Plus 8” airer 67 Harmless slitherer 68 See 63-Down
Down
1 Something that’s knitted 2 Here today, gone tomorrow 3 Quite different 4 Latin grammar case: Abbr. 5 Country with the King Hamad Highway 6 Trio abroad 7 Shoshone relatives 8 Player of Cleopatra in “Two Nights With Cleopatra” 9 Who had a #1 hit with “Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo’bye)” 10 Suffix with meth11 Spill everything 12 Politico with the 2007 autobiography “Promises to Keep” 13 “The Jungle Book” wolf 14 Put back on 20 Muscle used in bench-pressing 24 Simple dance 26 Things that may be blown 28 Some email pics 29 Photographic memory or perfect pitch, e.g. 30 Master 32 Cincinnati athlete 34 NASA part: Abbr. 36 Outlaws 37 Not too awful 38 Consumables often described with a percentage 44 Comic who said “I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I’m like, and I just go ‘Ugh’” 46 Worker on London’s Savile Row 48 Weightlessness 49 1943 Churchill conference site 50 Computer programmer 52 Dives 55 Useful thing to keep on hand? 57 “Janie’s Got ___” (1989 Aerosmith hit) 58 First in a historical trio 60 Almond ___ (candy) 62 Be short 63 With 68-Across, end of a Hemingway title