The new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 About 85%-90% of Muslims, globally [1st of 7]
6 *shrug* 9 Weight 13 Conjecture’s
lack
14 Reddit Q&A
session 15 Jacqueline du Pré’s instrument 16 Scottish cattle breed 17 Hollywood’s Ricardo or Paolo [2nd of 7]
19 Go here and
there
21 Spiky fruits with a noxious odor
22 Sch. in Troy,
N.Y.
24 Place for garage sale receipts 26 French for
“You are beautiful!”
[3rd of 7] 28 Requests
kibble, say 32 End result 33 Rocky Mountain National Park sight
35 About 10%-15% of Muslims, globally 36 Flutter, as
eyelashes 37 “Yippee for
us!” [4th of 7] 40 English suffix equivalent to Spanish’s -ando and -iendo
41 Word in a traditional
New Year’s Eve song
43 Bother and
bother 44 People for whom two states are named
46 Goal of a bedtime story reading 48 Digital confrontations? [5th of 7]
50 ___ Bedingfield, pop star with the hits “Unwritten” and “Pocketful of Sunshine” 52 This, that or
whichever 53 Looked up to 56 “Come ___!” 58 One of Robin Hood’s Merry Men [6th of 7] 60 Government program heads, informally 64 Come from
behind 65 Heaven knows where, for short
66 Brings home 67 Symbols of
wisdom 68 Suffer the
consequences 69 One with horns
[7th of 7]
DOWN
1 Place to
unplug 2 Archaeologist’s
find
3 Holiday quaff 4 Give
sustenance
5 In that case 6 Warm-blooded
sort
7 Punk
subculture 8 Like some drills and vacuums 9 Scary roller coaster twists
10 Actor Idris 11 Cousin of a tres leches cake
12 Oodles 15 Ricochet 18 Setting for a “Rubber Duckie” singalong 20 Winning blackjack combo 22 “Queen of Drag” with 12 Emmys
By Brooke Husic and Brian Thomas
23 Mortar’s partner in food prep and chemistry 25 Some
December lawn decorations 26 Oom-pah-pah
boomers 27 Stick for a 15-Across player 29 Buckeye
30 Like a snow
globe scene 31 Major
ordeals
34 “Big Little
Lies” actress Nicole
38 Load of information all at once
39 What Ctrl+T
might open 42 “Nope,” “I’m innocent” and “Huh-uh”
45 Subject of the 2008 documentary “The Black Candle” 47 Deflect, as an insult or a sword
49 “Er … I suppose
that works” 51 Lunar New
Year
53 Natural
hairstyle
54 Tie
55 Structure historically found by a river
57 Frosts 59 Surveillance
org.
61 Word with fine
or folk 62 Modern vaccine
base 63 Application
info, often
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