The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Soak (up) 4 With 14-Across, weakness for sugar
9 Fix, as a race 12 It’s on the waterfront 14 See 4-Across 15 Juno’s Greek counterpart 16 Designer Gucci 17 With 25-Down, 2012 British Open winner 18 Those, in Spain 19 What a rolling stone is unlikely to gather
21 Kurt of Nirvana 23 Retro
24 Baby
26 Pile up
27 A little thick 30 Same old, same old 31 Police dept. alert 32 Sharper 35 Cries of disgust 36 Christmas tree decoration … or a hint to what the circled letters form 38 Gets underway 41 I’m not buying it! 45 “___ take arms against a sea of troubles”: Hamlet 46 Something squirreled away?
50 Like black sheep
51 Tree with smooth bark 53 Long-handled tool 54 Language group that gave us “banjo” and “gumbo” 55 ___-chic (hippie-inspired fashion) 56 “But of course!” 57 Popular footwear from Down Under 58 “That would stink” 60 “Gilmore Girls” protagonist 63 Shield
64 Part of a shore dinner 65 Dot-dot-dot, dash-dashdash, dot-dotdot 66 “Yahoo!” 67 Put an end to something? 68 Blue Stater, for short
Down
1 Baden-Baden, for one 2 “Moby-Dick” light source 3 Humanpowered taxi 4 Vermeer and Rembrandt contemporary 5 Tattered 6 Forever and a day 7 Suffix with diet 8 2000s teen drama set in Newport Beach 9 What’s left 10 Absolutist’s rule 11 Number for a surgeon? 13 Tends to, as a cradle 15 Flip call 20 Show disdain for, in a way 22 Recurring action role for Matt Damon 23 Sound heard from a herd 25 See 17-Across 27 Netflix item 28 “The Holly and the ___” (Christmas song) 29 Hearing aid? 33 Archaeological handle 34 Make, as dough 36 Stitch with a hook
37 Fills with fury 38 Loud lament 39 New York City bridge, informally, with “the” 40 Fate who cuts the thread of life 42 2010 Disney film that set a record for the most expensive animated movie ever made 43 Gallery sign 44 Romanian currency 47 Given to talk 48 “Would you look at that!” 49 Worlds 52 Potful for Winnie-thePooh 54 Succumb to pressure? 58 Some office printers, for short 59 South American tuber 61 Arles assent 62 Suffix with real or social