Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Dreidels, e.g. 5 Little bit 10 Fancy-schmancy 14 Mother of Zeus 15 Home with a smoke flap

16 Up to it

17 Place to land that’s not on land 20 Nasdaq listings: Abbr.

21 “___ the only one?” 22 Amateur sports level

23 2002 musical that won eight Tonys 27 Quick pics 28 Gaelic language 29 Deli counter device

31 The Bronx Bombers, briefly 32 Include on an email

35 Spin

37 Very picture of idleness? 40 Father of ___ (epithet for Toussaint L’Ouverture) 41 Rise up 44 Canine breeders’ org. 47 Plastic-like clogs 49 Offshore 50 Pfizer competitor 52 Felix of

“The Odd Couple,” for one

55 How Russia ranks first among all countries 57 Shakespear­e’s

“Richard ___” 58 Suffix with lemon or lime 59 Treasury notes ... or what the two sides of 17-, 23-, 37- and 52-Across are joined with? 63 Help with a heist 64 Something you grin and bare? 65 Beyond regulation, briefly

66 Kind of wave 67 Pick up

68 Toy celebrated at Brickworld convention­s

DOWN

1 Windpipe

2 Toy company that made Etch A Sketch a success 3 Fights through adversity 4 Pouch

5 Part of a philatelis­t’s collection 6 Fermented milk drinks

7 Elect (to) 8 Brief moment 9 Disorganiz­ed pile

10 ), briefly

11 With 45-Down, Luke Skywalker’s mentor 12 Dopey co-worker 13 Martin Luther’s crime

18 Dorm monitors, for short 19 Wildlife sanctuary

24 Get through to 25 Show decorum 26 Oscillates about a vertical axis 30 Mythomania­c 33 Cheese plate staple

34 Next in line 36 “Reading Rainbow” host Burton 38 School founded by Henry VI

39 Hit TV show rebranded as “The Conners” in 2018 42 Iditarod pace setter 43 Develops a liking for

44 Female friends, in Spain

45 See 11-Down 46 Cowardly

48 New Orleans team

51 Home of the Minoan civilizati­on 53 Give 10% 54 Make stuff up 56 Parts of black widow spiders’ diets

60 One of the Three Stooges 61 Long, long time 62 Need for making latkes

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