NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Three-point letter you won’t find in Scrabble?
4 One of the Pointer
Sisters
9 Chips, cookies, etc. 13 Response to “Who’s ready?” 14 Not free
16 Word with square or air
17 Mercury is in this 20 “I’ve got it!” 21 Dangers in the
Amazon
22 What subs may
sub for 23 Afterword
25 One with many stuffy clients, for short?
26 Mercury might be
in this
28 ___ Polo 30 Christmas party? 31 Party in the U.K. 32 Light touches
36 Is insufficient 39 Hipsteresque,
say
40 Something posted from an online account
42 ___ nationalism, movement associated with the Baath Party
44 Here we are! 45 The Mercury might
be in this
51 Rio or Sorento 52 Have no more in
stock
54 Unit of
radioactivity
55 Lab report component 57 Doesn’t bother 58 Mercury was in
this
61 English poet
Wilfred ___ 62 Ice cream brand in West Coast supermarkets 63 Prefix with
-phyte
64 One’s parents, slangily, with “the”
65 Square
66 Sch. in Texas
DOWN
1 Chewy, meaty dog
treat
2 Show of hands? 3 Turkish inn
4 “___ way!” (“Nice
job!”)
5 Reply found backward in “No thanks”
6 Clinch, as a victory 7 Lethargic
8 Answer to the riddle “What can someone wear that never goes out of style?” 9 Some Feds 10 Choice words 11 Having a neat
appearance
12 The 19th Amendment is part of this 14 Reply in which one parent says to go talk to the other parent 15 Bullfight bull 18 Burn the surface of 19 Heated pool? 23 “And so ...” 24 Total hassle 27 Goggle 29 Org. for lawyers 31 Sliceable food
purchase
32 Game for a toddler 33 Smoothie bar order served with a spoon 34 Defeated soundly 35 Good to go 37 Brand once promoted as the “forbidden fragrance” 38 “Phooey!”
41 Allure
43 Curling targets 45 Cautionary store sign from an alcohol retailer 46 Used
47 “Phooey!”
48 Light charges? 49 Centrist in British
politics, informally 50 “Bye!”
53 Fridge visit for a midnight snack, say
56 Bowling pins on
the back right 57 ___ gai (Thai dish) 59 Main ingredient in
a Longshoreman 60 “Tee” follower