NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
CLUES
1 Zip 2 Subject of some 2015 border control measures 3 Instrument with 18+ strings 4 Women’s shoe feature 5 Back 6 “Don’t use that ___ with me!” 7 Back when, long ago 8 Artery: Abbr. 9 Sign to continue straight 10 Bill 11 One guarded in a duel? 12 Stat 13 Etta of old comics 14 Bird with a forceps-like bill 15 City north of Lisboa 16 Something that sticks out in a church? 17 Former Mississippi senator Trent 18 Outbreak 19 Orderly 20 Mozart was the first major composer to write specifically for it 21 Key 22 Broken, as promises 23 Chill 24 Razz 25 Beam 26 What a spoiler may spoil 27 Work toward 28 Holding office 29 Swell 30 Starter home? 31 Like black rhinos 32 Dump 33 Quartet minus one 34 Pro side of a vote 35 Heading in a baseball box score 36 Row 37 “There! I did it!” 38 Like the posture of human beings 39 Specialty skillet 40 ___ Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial 41 Cut 42 Mythomaniac 43 Over 44 Super ___ ( toy water guns) 45 Suffix with acetyl 46 Is licked by 47 Go out with 48 Laugh without restraint 49 Murder : crows :: ___ : turkeys 50 Word with prickly or alligator 51 One of the six official languages of the United Nations 52 What to expect when you’re expecting 53 Something the U. S. government bans the sale of 54 Gives up 55 Hide 56 ___ curriculum 57 Longtime Dallas Cowboys QB Tony 58 Break 59 Sources of vitamin C 60 C. Everett ___, 1980s surgeon general 61 Get around 62 What “whisky” is to “whiskey”: Abbr. 63 Stepped ( on) 64 ___ Bunt, villainess in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” 65 Whistle- blower, e. g. 66 French “to be” 67 Commercial light 68 Put bandages on, as wounds 69 Novelist Jean who wrote “Wide Sargasso Sea”
Note: All the clues in this crossword appear in a single list, combining Across and Down. When two answers share a number, they also share a clue.