NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0221
ACROSS
1 Something a student may cut 6 Doesn’t bother 12 Team VIPs
15 Author of “The Eagle and the Fox” and “The Fox and the Lion” 16 Where to watch the Lightning and Hurricanes 17 Porridge grain 18 Region that spans about 8% of the earth’s land area [Arabic] 20 Attempt
21 Rodin sculpture featuring a couple whose lips don’t quite touch 22 “My Gal ___” 23 Fencing option 24 Addams family cousin 25 Body of water bordering Nevada and California [Washoe] 27 Actor McGregor 30 Biological molecule 32 Days past 33 Shakespearean
fairy queen 34 Playground retort 37 Electricity bill datum 40 Landmark on which most U.S. radio stations base the starts of their call signs, with “W” on the east and “K” on the west [Algonquin] 43 Together (with) 44 Clay targets,
informally 45 Official language
of Ghana: Abbr. 46 Certain mattress
material 48 Commonly torn
band, for short 49 Excited about 50 Nation that shares an island with part of Indonesia [Indonesian] 54 Fall behind 56 Takes home 57 Governor DeSantis 58 Commercial
spaces in an app 62 “Mud”
63 Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50Across vis-à-vis the bracketed languages 65 Undivided
66 Look away from 67 Wombs 68 Big fashion inits. 69 Some downtown
street liners 70 Start over
DOWN
1 Dramatis personae
portrayers
2 Actress and documentarian Remini 3 Arthur of the court 4 Be absorbed, as a
marinade
5 Pole that extends
a sail
6 Fellows
7 Prior to, in poetry 8 ___ Virtue, threetime world ice dancing champion 9 Sly sort
10 Grain in some
hearty soup
11 Is French?
12 What all good children
do, in a nursery rhyme 13 Penguins great Lemieux 14 Do, as hair
19 First MLB team to use artificial turf in its stadium 23 Persian language 25 Eye-opening
experience?
26 They might be guided 27 ___ Raducanu, 2021 U.S. Open women’s tennis champion 28 Cry out
29 What some workout videos promise 31 Loch ___ 34 Investigate
persistently
35 Ape’s weapon in
“Planet of the Apes” 36 International oil grp. 38 Fellow
39 Therefore
41 Little brats 42 “That’s sufficient, I
guess”
47 It’s just an illusion 49 Take a lighter to 50 “Have fun!” 51 Long, long times 52 Get on
53 How ballerinas
often perform 55 Fortune tell 58 Some pub brews 59 Freezes (over) 60 Scale button 61 Thin cut
63 Cook with a long
history at Apple 64 Bobby of Bruins lore
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