N.Y.TimesCrosswordPuzzle
Across
1 Parishioners’
bench 4 Spanish “Bye!” 9 Unexpected plot
development 14 Before, in poetry 15 Variety show with
skits and songs 16 Got out of bed 17 Preliminary
tournament stage 20 Commotion 21 Campus figure
with a “list” 22 1960s soul singer
Redding 23 Filipino or Laotian 26 Fig. on a college
transcript 29 “Spring forward” clock setting: Abbr. 30 Snake oil salesman’s offering 33 Move just a little 34 Got hitched in
Vegas, perhaps 35 Cause for a
produce recall 38 Lawyers’ org. 40 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. 41 1989’s “Honey, I
___ the Kids” 43 Wonderland
visitor 45 Woman temporarily serving as monarch 47 Ice cream amts. 50 Disorderly
bunch 51 Beginning phase 52 Last word in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” 53 Actress ___
Skye 55 Passes into law 57 Financial statement issued every three months 62 Railroad property
in Monopoly 63 Actress Davis of “Thelma & Louise” 64 20-sided game piece in Dungeons & Dragons 65 Intelligence 66 Important agent in bread dough and beer fermentation 67 Guinness book
suffix
Down
1 Captain Ahab’s ship in “MobyDick”
2 Shoots lava 3 What to do “if the
shoe fits” 4 Prima donna’s
chance to shine 5 Swindle 6 Poison ___
(plant) 7 French assent 8 Maurice who wrote “Where the Wild Things Are” 9 Olympic figure skating champion Lipinski 10 Ill-advised
maneuver 11 Debtor’s note 12 ID with two
hyphens 13 TV’s “___ Lasso” 18 The “L” of
U.C.L.A. 19 Sci-fi or romance 24 Story that spans
generations 25 Swelling reducers
for sprains 27 Pet name for
José 28 Gulf of ___ (waters off the coast of Yemen) 30 Anthony who played Zorba in “Zorba the Greek” 31 Put into power 32 Football
distances: Abbr. 33 Colorful symbols of hope and happiness 35 Lawyer’s title:
Abbr.
36 Pal 37 Cookie in cookies
and cream 39 Opposite of aweather, to a sailor 42 Coin of Denmark 44 Summer office
workers 46 Pep 47 Scannable blackand-white square … or a hint to 17-, 30-, 45- and 57-Across 48 Video game with
falling blocks
49 Six lines in a
sonnet 52 Percussive
dance style 54 Great Plains
tribe 56 “Super-cool!” 57 Over half of all Super Bowl M.V.P.s, for short 58 Dubai’s country,
for short 59 ___ Arbor, Mich. 60 Stan who cocreated the Marvel Universe 61 Vote of support