NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 1226
ACROSS
1 Bind
4 It’s not much work 7 Short 10 Average name 13 Talk show medium 15 Quite an accomplishment 17 Señora Perón 18 Secret headquarters for Bruce Wayne
19 Not be oneself? 21 “I’ve heard everything I need to hear” 23 Relative of a haddock
25 Moon of Saturn named for a Titaness 26 Instant 27 Black-and-white predators 29 Martin ___, “London Fields” novelist 32 Comic strip title character who is Beetle Bailey’s sister 35 Winter D.C. setting 36 Quite an accomplishment 38 Do some underground exploring 40 Find an ideal compromise 43 Transitional zone between two biomes
44 Early Cuzco resident 45 Pull
46 End notes 47 Highland tongue 49 Aunt ___ of “Oklahoma!” 51 Estadio exclamation 53 Pie hole
55 Places where people may have the knives out for you, in brief 56 Classic tune often played by ice cream trucks 61 Adjust
62 Sport that is the key to interpreting the answers to 21-, 40- and 56-Across 66 Consist of
67 Get to 68 Temporarily inactive 69 “That really hurt!” 70 Waitress at Mel’s Diner
71 Magic 8 Ball response 72 Prefix with -phyte
DOWN
1 Snarky remark 2 Residents’ org. 3 Muscleman with a mohawk 4 Eponymous Dutch town
5 Subject of several Georges Seurat paintings 6 Doth proceed 7 Horror movie staple 8 Part of a parka 9 Winter season 10 Place for cold cuts 11 Like skating rinks, typically 12 Manners
14 Rock group from Sydney
16 Vets’ charges 20 Dish seasoned with saffron 22 Uncultivated tract 23 Bulk-purchase retailer 24 One who closely adheres to the Torah 28 Picked locks? 30 Some library catalog info, for short
31 Magellan, e.g. 33 Runs up, as expenses 34 Surfboard stabilizer 35 Higher-up 37 Golden ___ 39 Carrier that offers only kosher meals 41 Bibliographer’s phrase of inclusion 42 Levels 48 Something no single speaker provides 50 Menial 52 Certain B.S. holder: Abbr. 54 Cornered 56 Letter in the NATO alphabet 57 Prefix with -phyte 58 “What a long week!”
59 “___ is other people”: Sartre 60 Commands respect from 63 Swimming gold medalist Thorpe 64 Columbus-toCleveland dir. 65 Old Pontiac with a V-8 engine