NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0222
ACROSS
1 Hot topping for a
cone?
5 Practical joke 9 Tricky billiard
shot
14 Way off 15 Ensconced in 16 Asian dog
breed
17 *Ensign
19 Rich sources of
beta carotene 20 Joint
21 One of millions in New Zealand 23 Migration
pattern?
24 Lose one’s shirt,
say
25 *Emirate
28 Coup planners 30 Ensiform, adj.:
Shaped like a ___ 31 ___ Valley 34 Singer Williams who founded the Temptations 36 Split up
38 Pre-med pre-req 39 *Arbiter
41 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g.
42 Came to pass 44 Bibliographer’s
abbr.
45 Ceremony 46 They’re typically older than seniors
48 One in it for the
long haul
50 *Depot
52 Put on a big
smile 56 ___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal)
57 Figure in I
Samuel 58 Issuance from an American embassy, in brief 59 Discombobulated 61 *Begin
64 Meant to be 65 “And so ...” 66 Actor Woo-shik of
“Parasite”
67 Long hauls 68 Doesn’t stay tight 69 Hankerings
DOWN
1 Scores
2 Underway
3 Steamy stuff 4 Most-grown coffee bean in the world
5 Copacetic
6 Bon ___ 7 Exemplar of
neatness
8 Barely defeated 9 Launches an
attack
10 Going by, in brief 11 Chevy truck since
1998
12 Staple of Trinidadian music
13 Plein-air prop 18 Kelly of morning
talk
22 “Time ___ ...” 25 Nonreflective, in a
way
26 Not too much 27 First part of a
triple jump
29 Stole from a
burlesque act 31 With 50-Down, annual June sports event 32 It’s never out of
tune
33 Anathema to an
aesthete
35 Cut down 37 Surpass
39 What some people are dyeing to be? 40 Puckish sort 43 ___ fly
45 Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments 47 Big star, in Spain 49 If-then-___ (programming construct)
50 See 31-Down 51 Things one might pick up while entering a room 53 Church offering 54 Apply to
55 2024 Olympics
site
58 Focus of the USAF’s Project Blue Book (1952-1969) 60 “Yikes!”
62 Time to remember 63 ___ white