The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Hankerings 5 About seven or eight weeks before 5-Down 8 Rapper

Biggie ___ 14 State

15 What can precede nutshell or heartbeat 16 Arrived 17 Aucklander,

e.g.

18 Blue grp. 19 Suave and

sophisticated 20 Literary character with an eponymous chain of seafood restaurants 23 –

24 Big name in contact lens care

25 Most itsy-bitsy 27 Talking-tos 30 Harbinger 31 What a monkey has that an ape doesn’t 32 Snoozefest 34 Roman equivalent of the Greek Helios 37 Country that lacks an official language, informally 39 One of the women in “Little Women” 40 Beginning or

end for Alexa? 42 Dunderhead 43 Nickname for Gotham City’s protector 46 Expressed 47 Ponied up 48 Butcher birds 50 You might see snow when it’s disrupted 54 Winter coat 55 Grateful Dead founding member Bob 56 Like “Blade Runner” and “Fahrenheit 451”

59 Cocoon

61 “So clever!” 62 Each

64 One who’s far from stonefaced

65 Beauty that’s only skin deep, for short? 66 ___ Millions 67 “Nothing to

report” 68 Absolute

dump 69 Misnomer for the character Fritz in the original “Frankenstein” (1931)

DOWN

1 Shaggy, horned

beast

2 Word with

twin or grin 3 “It’s all good” 4 Pandemic cause of

2009

5 Time in the dog days of summer

6 365 giorni

7 An extravagant one might have a swimming pool

8 “Uh, what was

that?” 9 Seafarers 10 Film production company founded by Steven Spielberg 11 Bail, so to

speak

12 What an actor

studies 13 Hägar the

Horrible’s dog 21 Shaggy, horned

beast

22 It glows orange-red when placed in an electric field

Grant Thackray

26 –

27 “___ Kett” (old comic strip that taught teens manners) 28 Sounds at a fireworks show 29 Expensive shipping option

33 It’s a trap! 34 “Come on,

move it!” 35 Toddler’s booboo

36 Blokes

38 John Deere

logo animal 41 Hit CBS series that, despite its name, was filmed primarily in California 44 Impedes 45 Like Louis Armstrong’s singing

47 One with an “eye patch,” hook hand and peg leg, as represented in this puzzle’s grid

49 Grave letters 50 One getting “the talk,” say

51 Modern payment method 52 Order to

attack 53 Hurdles for

aspiring D.A.s 57 “Top ___!” 58 Scuttled

60 Fix a hole, in a

way

63 Double eagle

plus three

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