The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 *Acronym of

talks

5 Muslim

minority 9 *Kind of

wreath 14 Strawberry

___ Lemonade (Starbucks menu item) 15 *Bank

employee 16 Ere

17 Some drums,

informally 18 Social split 19 Cafeteria array 20 “Right away,

chief!”

21 Kind of trip 22 Sweet libation 23 Bygone city in present-day Iraq, once the world’s most populous 25 Sought after 28 Alarm

29 Hit off the end of the club, in golf lingo 31 *China

problem 32 Drop-___ 34 Reason to

stop 35 Short-term job 36 Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing 41 Date

42 Bird spotted in eastern Samoa? 43 Right-angled

bend 44 Something he or she can use that you can’t? 46 Comfy lodgings 48 Bananagrams

pieces

52 High point, of a

sort

54 Gas for a tank 56 ___ club 57 Seek favor

with

58 Green

movement? 59 Refrain

syllables 61 *Hill’s partner 62 Part of the eye 63 Something to

get down from 64 Advantageous kind of position 65 Black: It. 66 “Those who

can”

67 Old org. for

Armenia 68 Valley

DOWN

1 Sticks around

for a race? 2 Immediately

recognizable 3 Thin layer 4 Why pregnant women are advised against eating raw fish

5 Jag

6 Vital statistic 7 Stats, e.g. 8 Fire ___ 9 Severely criticizes, with “on”

10 Yellow, so to

speak

11 What you might think “The Fast and the Furious” is about? 12 Martini

specification

Sam Buttrey

13 “Sim,” in Brazil 22 Interfere

24 Sell

25 Basslike 26 Princeton Tiger

rivals

27 M.A., e.g. 30 Skin, for one 33 Colorful analogy, perhaps 36 Common subject of a stress dream 37 Apostate 38 Survey choice 39 Tall: Sp.

40 Part of a collage, perhaps 41 Family

nickname 45 *Philadelphia university, familiarly 47 Booty 49 *Able to endure difficult conditions 50 Complete 51 Puts atop 53 Fruits you might aptly buy in twos? 55 Cowboy,

sometimes 57 “___ asking?” 59 *Unwelcome

bit of mail 60 Bravo in the

movies?

61 PC “brain”