NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Tacks on 5 Not include 9 Had fingers

crossed 14 Front of a

freighter 15 Duffer’s warning 16 + end on an

electrolytic cell 17 Birdbath

organism 18 Bushy dos 19 Vegetation along a British golf course 20 Yard displays at

election time 23 Color tone 24 Org. for the Big East, Big South and Big 12 25 Family tree

members 28 Geologist’s

division 29 Mongol Empire

founder 31 “Gymnopédies”

composer Erik 33 Geologist’s

division 34 Claudius’s

successor 35 Small amount 38 ___- Ball 40 Yea or nay 43 Goat’s bleat 45 Stops playing 49 “Nope, guess

again” 53 Cracklin’ ___

Bran 54 Susan who wrote “In America” 55 U. S. city whose name looks oxymoronic 56 Lead- in to an

alias 57 Nonactive member of a firm… or what G, H andW each have in 20-, 29and 49- Across? 60 Sharp increase 62 Burnett of CNN 63 It’ll give you a

clear picture 64 K. T. of country

music 65 Offer mortgages 66 “That makes

sense” 67 Trattoria course 68 Staying power,

informally 69 George Foreman Jr., George Foreman III, George Foreman IV, etc.

Down

1 Army fliers since

1984 2 Advice- giver on

SiriusXM 3 Serving in Asia that’s taboo in theWest 4 Exchange 5 Setting for

“Dilbert” 6 New York’s ___

Library 7 Period in Europe starting around 1100 B. C. 8 “___ of the

D’Urbervilles” 9 Sheep dish popular in Scotland 10 Preparing to propose, by tradition 11 Boxster maker 12 Mag. staffers 13 Actor Billy ___

Williams 21 Ire 22 Unerasably, say 26 Body part that some people wiggle 27 ___ Balls ( snack

food) 30 Sounds from the

Jolly Green Giant 32 Aid in producing a suspect’s picture 36 Picture 37 Test ___ ( treaty

subject) 39 Blunder 40 Bugs on the

road? 41 Medalla de ___ ( first- place award in Mexico) 42 Painful things to

have removed 44 Source of wood

for baseball bats 46 Scoundrel 47 Break during

rehearsal, say 48 Doesn’t eat for a

long while 50 Main ore of lead 51 Erasing, as a

hard drive 52 African

antelopes 58 “Little” Dickens

girl 59 “___ is the life!” 60 Soak up 61 Smokey Bear was in an early one, for short