NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Musky “cat” 6 Banned antimalarial 9 Direction to bow,
for a violinist 13 Shifts from neutral,
in a way
15 Lie about
16 What you might have to do for some highway construction ... or a first hint to solving this puzzle’s theme 17 F in music class? 18 Falco of TV’s “Oz”
19 Causes to run without human involvement 21 Loosening, as a joint
23 Shiner?
24 One who’s up to the minutes
25 Michigan college or its town
27 Key used for exiting
30 Before opening?
32 “Bésame ___” (bolero song)
34 Dedicatee of “Moby-Dick”
39 Collect all together
40 Pumped metal
41 Looked for facts in figures
43 “Blinking heck!”
45 Bit
46 [Cluck]
47 Geiger of Geiger counter fame
49 Slowpokes at the head of a trail
54 PBS’ “___ the Science Kid”
55 “I never look back, dahling. It distracts from ___”: Pixar’s Edna Mode 56 Honesty, kindness or respect, for many people
61 Sports org. for
students
62 Common operating system for supercomputers, once
63 Gradually trims ... or a phonetic second hint to solving this puzzle’s theme
65 Milk delivery point
66 How things have always been done
67 IDs since the Great
Depression 68 2013 biopic about
actor Mineo
69 Crapshoots, essentially
1 Many Stan Lee film appearances
2 Sealed the deal
3 Strong and energetic
4 Enter cautiously
5 It’s no loss
6 Hermès, par exemple
7 Expert
8 Sudden source of rain, informally
9 Temper, as fears
10 Nose (around)
11 With
12-Down, secretly plots (with)
12 -
14 The Swiss fly a
square one 20 Officer’s title 22 Creator of an
animal shelter 25 With 26-Down, repeated occurrences of things in turn
26 -
27 Major option for a
future CEO
28 With 29-Down,
taught a lesson 29 -
DOWN
31 Signal to proceed
33 News letters
34 With
35-Down, some common attire for cooks
35 -
36 Tasks
37 Demolition material
38 Finish off
42 TV series with the all-time mostwatched episode
44 Prison weapon
48 Novelizes, e.g.
50 Bestow upon temporarily
51 Deploy, as wire from a spool
52 Disappear midtour, say
53 Proust’s “___ Way” 54 Blue notes?
55 Set up for a swing
56 With
57-Down, noble title
57 -
58 Johnson who directed “The Last Jedi”
59 “___ Croft: Tomb Raider”
60 Europe’s thirdlongest river 64 Officer’s title