NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Deg. for a

museum worker 4 Loll

8 Elapse 14 Dashboard part 16 Musical run with

four sharps 17 Part played by women and girls?

18 Have hot cocoa on a winter day, say

19 U.S. president with a Nobel Peace Prize 20 Take a breath 22 Had for dinner 23 Blue ___ (Duke

mascot)

25 Use a lot? 27 Overhaul

29 Area below “To:”

in an email? 32 Land in a Beatles

song

35 Tide alternative 36 “Ghost” psychic

Oda ___ Brown 37 Ones on set with 2009’s “Star Trek” director?

40 Any one of the

12 steps? 42 Grant with the 1991 #1 hit “Baby Baby”

43 Battery size 45 “This round’s

___”

46 Group of buildings housing a King? 49 Recedes 53 What Lot’s wife became 54 Common bacterium

Go bad

57 58 Group in the original “Ocean’s 11” movie 61 “Sure, that works” 63 Harrowing experience 64 Lover of Cummings’s poetry? 66 Sasha ___, Beyoncé’s alter ego 67 Speedster’s undoing 68 Owns (up to) 69 Money to belong 70 Green-minded org.

Down

1 Freight train part 2 Dwell (on) 3 Bruce Wayne’s butler 4 Intertwined 5 Eccentric 6 “Million Years

___” (Adele song) 7 Irony?

8 Places for

parishioners 9 “Now!” 10 Libretto, for

example 11 “Spider-Man” director, 2002 12 Horse with evenly mixed black-and-white hairs 13 “Indeedy”

15 Gang pistol, in old slang 21 Jewelry designer 48 Peretti 24 Obsolescent TV attachment 26 Place to bounce a baby

28 “___ House,” 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hit 30 Panache 31 Quahog or geoduck 33 Where clothes often rip

34 Trade

37 Nasty comments 38 Pan creator 39 Island group in the Aegean Sea 41 Spike who directed “BlacKkKlansman”

44 Smart fellow? 45 Tic-tac-toe loser 47 Bewhiskered mammals ___ College, liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Fla. 50 Subject of a New York Times column until 2015

51 Study, informally 52 Chest bones 55 Feminist writer Audre 56 Giant furniture stores 59 Tempo 60 Hoppy mediums?

62 & 63 Distant 65 What’s found in the French rivière?