Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY SARAH SINCLAIR

ACROSS

1 “The Fresh Prince

of ___-Air”

4 Icy ocean hazards 9 Less than 90º, as

an angle

14 Down Under bird 15 State known for

potatoes

16 Pirate’s pal

17 Be determined by 19 Lying facedown 20 Encourage, as in

behavior

21 Small drink 23 School fig. that

might be weighted 24 Geometry calculatio­n 25 Critical moment in

tennis

29 Sort who tells no tales, per an old saying

31 Argue

32 Wimbledon unit 33 Garlicky sauce 36 Ballet, e.g., in French 37 Extremely flammable, as vegetation 39 Certain wedding

hairstyles

42 Apt vowels missing from this phrase: TH_ L_TTL_ K_DS’ S_NG

43 Mac alternativ­es 46 Vampire

vanquisher, e.g. 48 “Don’t worry

about it”

50 Fuzzy buzzers 53 Keen on 54 Engineered crop

letters

55 Repair

56 “Thus ...” 57 Chinese or Lao 59 Modern medium for meeting someone ... or what each of the starts of 17-, 25-, 37- and 50-Across is 62 Like the taste of Tic

Tacs

63 Give the most votes,

as a candidate 64 D.C. baseballer 65 Common teenage

emotion 66 Vampire-vanquishin­g weapon

67 First clue number in this puzzle that doesn’t have an Across answer

DOWN

1 Gives the Anne

Boleyn treatment 2 Many an ex-pat 3 Attack, as in

fencing

4 Good, in

Guatemala

5 School website

ending

6 Genre for Nicki

Minaj

7 Stop replying to, as

on a 59-Across 8 Video game

hedgehog

9 Hype (up) 10 Storage spot in a

ship

11 Perfect

12 Ones with leases 13 One of up to 200(!)

on a scallop 18 Provoke

22 Hood wearer at a graduation, for short

25 Common street

name

26 Battery terminal 27 Five Portuguese

kings

28 Bit of concert

merch 30 “The Marvelous

Mrs. ___” 34 Hawaiian garland 35 Adler in the Sherlock Holmes canon 37 Playthings in

bathtubs

38 “Ay ___ mío!”

(Spanish “OMG!”) 39 Car-to-phone

connection option 40 Connects to an

electrical outlet 41 Beaver’s job 43 Necklace

dangler

44 Person being used

by another

45 Go as low as 47 Whistle blower 49 Common eyeliner

shape

51 ___ one’s time

(waits)

52 Laud

56 Starting poker

payment 57 Doctor’s org. 58 Longtime media

inits.

60 Green or black

beverage 61 “Gross!”

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