The new york times crossword

Stick under the bed?

Served flawlessly? Play with, as a catnip mouse Off-the-books business, perhaps Olympics venue

Shifty type? Lubricate again

Words before a deadline

Site of a Herculean task Function Sparkly wine cocktail

Praises to the heavens Fumble

Cog on a wheel ___ crawl Mideast federation since 1971, in brief 35 Dunderhead 38 Fraternity

letter

39 Brand of congestion medication 41 Where wild animals are most likely to see you 42 Old-fashioned

“Whoopee!” 44 Capital of Brazil until 1960, informally 45 Refuses to 46 Make broader 48 Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm 50 Conservative,

in a sense 53 Subject of a fully exposed image? 57 Affirming

words 58 Surprise

encounter 60 Polite refusal 61 Muppet named after a character in “Midnight Cowboy” 1 5 9 14 16

17 18

19 20

22 23

25

27 29 30 33

ACROSS

63 How this puzzle’s grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across 65 Bamboozle 66 1977 Linda

Ronstadt hit 67 Word before and after “to,” in a religious phrase

68 Org. endorsing P.P.E. for workers 69 Jean who wrote

“Wide Sargasso

Sea”

DOWN

1 Moves quickly,

as a cloud 2 Really enjoy 3 In keeping

with

4 Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers 5 Shortest path connecting two points on a sphere 6 Surname of father/son actors James and Scott 7 Henry Ford’s

sole heir 8 Consider something to be

9 Overly

suspicious 10 Word often abbreviated to its middle letter in texts 11 *Like a household with a stay-athome parent, maybe 12 Sambuca

flavoring 13 Padded

accounts? 15 “___ see it from my perspective …”

Simeon Seigel

21 *Longtime Mazda catchphrase 24 *Annual gathering of superhero fans 26 Member of

TV’s Addams Family

28 It comes and

goes

30 Last in a series 31 Mer makeup 32 *Babe-in-thewoods quality 34 Where the smallest bones in the body are found

36 Tiny particle 37 Wee ’un 39 Antique tools for pressing clothes

40 Ficus fruit 43 Mighty Patch

target 45 Lot in Genesis,

e.g.

47 Papal

emissary 49 Swindle 50 More or less,

in time 51 Señor’s sendoff

52 River

deposits 54 N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas 55 Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled “A Coming-ofGender

Story” 56 Components of a hard six, in craps

59 Quick bite 62 Last in

a series 64 Farm delivery

letters

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