The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Cozy home in

the woods 6 Cooking vessels for omelets

10 Ask for, as a cigarette, informally 13 Putting to

work

14 Box office

dud

15 Lasso

material 16 *High-energy person, metaphorically 18 Means justifiers, it’s said

19 Nothing

doing? 20 “Who’s there?”

response 21 Corp. honchos 22 Melon with a

yellow rind 24 Strategic

maneuver 26 Ending with

Oktober or gab 28 Rap culture 31 Obsolescent music purchases, in brief 34 Low-pH liquids 37 Liberty Mutual

alternative 38 Single, double or triple, in baseball

39 Dog command … or a hint to the starts of the answers to the four starred clues 41 Org. for Penguins and Ducks 42 Popular sansserif typeface 44 Geological rift 45 “You’ve got

mail!” I.S.P. 46 Official order 48 Christmas song 50 Fate

53 Major blunders 57 Fliers that may consume thousands of insects in an hour 59 Pimientostuffed treat 61 ___ fide 62 Soothing

succulent 63 *Documentation leading to proof 65 Hieroglyphic

bird

66 R&B great

Redding 67 Tries to deice, as winter roads

68 Bit of skin ink,

informally 69 Cooped (up) 70 Totally lost

DOWN

1 Shaped like

dice

2 Carne ___

(taco filling) 3 Football team

in Buffalo 4 Blooming with

foliage

5 Oxfam or

Mercy Corps, e.g., in brief 6 [Gone … just

like that!] 7 Like red-carpet

celebrities 8 ___ Rae (Sally

Field title role) 9 Oration 10 *Some fine

porcelain 11 Beehive or

French twist 12 Kitchen description after

Spaghetti Sunday

By Anthony J. Caruso and houqin Burnikel

15 A cook might have a secret one 17 Ludicrous

failure 23 Snoopy and Gromit, for two

25 Turn clockwise,

as a screw 27 Petty

kerfuffle 29 Eight: Sp. 30 Opinion

survey 31 Country east of

Niger

32 In ___ straits 33 *“Don’t quit

now!”

35 Narc’s org. 36 Leave

astounded

40 Pitcher sent in to seal a win

43 Crops up 47 Panic! at the

Disco genre 49 One navigating a maze, maybe

51 Give joy 52 Basketball

rebound play 54 Newborn

horses

55 Join forces

56 It can be verde

or roja 57 Worm on a

hook, e.g. 58 “Sin City” costar Jessica 60 Waistcoat 64 Airport grp.

Annual subscriptions are available for the best of Sunday crosswords from the last 50 years: 1-888-7-ACROSS.

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 2,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Share tips: nytimes.com/wordplay. Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/ learning/xwords.