The new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 Go bad
4 ___ Coeur, Mo. 9 Hayes in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 14 “Well, looky
here!”
15 Fuel carrier at
sea
16 ___ toast 17 Betting game in which you could lose your shirt 19 One who’s constantly talking smack 20 Brooklyn basketball team
21 Shaped like
grapes
23 Time away from the grind, for short
24 Film cast and crew celebration 27 Insolent
manner 30 Secondary schools in France 31 Approach
33 Aid in making a
pompadour 34 Almost twins … as suggested by this puzzle’s circled squares? 39 [head slap] 40 Smooth, in
music
41 Like some writing of Anaïs Nin 45 Adkins, for
Adele
49 Tickets for shorter lines, good seats, backstage access, etc. 51 Thespian 52 What might be
taken to go? 53 The speed of
sound 55 Lofty abode 57 Some old
mobile devices 59 A.F.C. East athlete, for short
60 Disney princess with “a dreamy far-off look, and her nose stuck in a book”
61 One arguing in
court: Abbr. 62 Bookish sorts 63 Twiddled one’s
thumbs
64 Sch. with a campus in Shreveport
DOWN
1 Platforms for
speakers 2 Words following “Which thing?” 3 Sign in an apartment window 4 Signature feature of a Duracell battery
5 Total hoot 6 Fraternal group with a mammalian name
7 Peace sign
shape
8 Slip-up
9 “OK by me” 10 Largest airport in the Pacific Northwest 11 Ziggy Stardust vis-à-vis David Bowie
12 Midge Maisel’s father on “The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel” 13 Garage
occupant
18 Dye for denim 22 Kilmer of “Top
Gun”
24 Sneaky sorts 25 Peeved, with
“off”
26 Fashion inits.
28 French article 29 “What’s the
big ___?” 32 Latvia’s capital 34 Doughnut shapes, mathematically 35 Burger King
offering 36 “Old Town Road” rapper Lil ___ X 37 Stuck on 38 Lightweight
rainwear 39 Patel of “Slumdog Millionaire” 42 Moved on the
tarmac 43 Places to be
marooned 44 Farm-share program, for short
46 Lacking a key,
in music 47 “Woman With a Parasol” and “Impression, Sunrise” 48 1974 pop hit with Spanish lyrics
50 Like Robert Mueller beginning in 2013
53 Move around, with
“about”
First company to be valued at $1 trillion 55 Raggedy ___ 56 Word before dropper or popper 58 Spearheaded
54
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