The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 What you might do if you skip a step 5 Like old-fashioned diapers 10 “Selma” director DuVernay 13
review
14 “Tiny Bubbles”
crooner 15 Onetime ruler in the Winter Palace 16 Insomniac’s complaint
19 Japanese lunch
box
20 Root beer
brand 21 Half-___
(coffee option) 22 Alternative to
Tide or Cheer 23 Leaving dirty dishes on the counter, say 27 ___ cava 28 Firefighter tool 29 Limit
31 Part of a Swiss
roll? 33 Ambulance
figure, for short 34 Green stone 35 Rain heavily 36 Sexy detective 38 Bay ___ 39 Force on the ground
40 Abbr. in a criminal profile 41 Like the posts at the top of a blog, typically 43 Growling dog 44 Showy neckwear
45 Fifth book of the New Testament 46 Works like an anti-aging serum 49 West Coaster’s summer hrs. 52 Fed-up feeling 53 Certain library loan 54 Lessen, as fears 56 Liquid evidenced by the answers to this puzzle’s italicized clues? 60 Tiny bit
61 Off the table? 62 Part of N.B. 63 First word of many California city names 64 “___ Anatomy” 65 General ___ chicken
Down
1 Group making
a reservation? 2 Go-kart, e.g. 3 Ex of the
Donald 4 Confined, with
“up” 5 Contents of jewel cases, for short 6 Nabokov
novel
7 Last year before A.D.
8 1931 boxing movie for which Wallace Beery won a Best Actor Oscar 9 “___ on it!” 10 “Yeah,
whatever” 11 & 12 Actress Joan whose last name consists of two different conveyances 15 Contraction that starts “Jabberwocky” 17 Cat or top hat, in Monopoly 18 Oil crisis? 24 Completely jumbled 25 Wiped out 26 Ralph who wrote “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” 27 Not stay the same
30 Split tidbit 31 Grounds for discussion? 32 Alliterative ice cream flavor
33 H, as in Athens 34 Highestgrossing film before “Star Wars” 35 ___-12 (N.C.A.A. conference) 37 “As you wish,” to a spouse 42 Allen or Hawke 44 Rush-hour sound 45 Actress Hepburn 47 The Krusty ___ (SpongeBob SquarePants’s workplace) 48 Egg-shaped 49 Bends at a barre 50 “Book
’em, ___!” 51 Rug rats 55 Rainbow flag initialism 56 Letters at a filling station? 57 Org. with ties to
Sinn Fein 58 Part for tuning a guitar 59 Connections