The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Small headache 5 Onetime chain that offered Free Battery Club memberships 15 10-Down
highlight 16 Best-selling heavy metal band named for a torture device
17 Big ol’ mouth 18 Brushing, e.g. 19 TV character who said “I am so smart! I am so smart! S-MR-T!”
21 Old worker
with pads
22 Big ol’ mouth 23 Pine product 25 It’s flat on a
snapback 26 Coin-___
27 8 vis-à-vis 2 29 Aimee ___ McPherson, evangelist behind America’s first megachurch 34 Vulnerable newcomers, in slang
37 Field
38 Duo in an
ellipse 39 Intoxicate 41 They might be gathered by the pound
42 Bio subj. 43 Labor union offering, perhaps 45 More than
dangerous 48 Part
49 Banned Books
Week org. 50 ___ Yaga
(folklore villain) 52 Release
54 Its structure was evidenced by Photo
51, an X-ray captured in 1952
57 Several
Russian czars 59 Cocktail tidbit 61 Going from 99
to 100, say 64 Archer of note 65 In hot pursuit 66 See 60-Down 67 Experts in
English? 68 Sharp, in a way
Down
1 Trail
2 Like a
butterfingers 3 Bucky in the comic strip “Get Fuzzy,” e.g.
4 Patches up, in
a way
5 Clear
6 Foe of Wonder
Woman
7 “Stay in
touch!”
8 Place
underground 9 Subjects of a certain sultanate 10 Strauss work with the “Dance of the Seven Veils” 11 Flashin’ Fruit
Punch brand 12 #1 dad? 13 Michael who played George Michael Bluth on TV 14 Was
aware
20 Like angel investors and devil’s food cake
24 Not sensitive
(to)
26 Viscera 28 Queen’s
subjects
30 Not natural 31 The art of
politics? 32 Entitled
sort
33 Desire of a
quick study? 35 Emperor’s order in “Star Wars” 36 Fatty tuna in Japanese cuisine 40 Register 44 Stay good 46 Goes along
with 47 Extravagant 51 Where to get money in Milano
53 Bit of a
character
54 Go down 55 You shouldn’t
do this
56 What you might unthinkingly be on
58 Gone down 60 With 66-Across, “Good thinking!” 62 Senators’ org. 63 Three for a
trey: Abbr.