NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Wristwatch part
6 Rock band with a 1980 album that went 25x platinum
10 “That’s amazing!”
13 Crumbles away
15 Place
16 “That’s amazing!”
17 They put in long hours to get better hours
19 Emmy- winning actress Aduba
20 Strong base
21 What’s theorized to have preceded the Big Bang
22 Puts off, in a way
24 Down- hearted softies?
27 Slimeball
28 Showy wraps
30 Telephone when all lit up?
34 Word seen above a mug shot
36 What polar opposites have in common
37 Graceful leap
38 It may lead up to a letdown
39 When some people break for lunch
41 ___- fresh
42 Red slips of paper?
43 ___ Bengal
( five- star hotel in Kolkata)
44 Endure punishment 46 Founder of the
Sikh religion
49 Actress Laura
50 What’s uttered by a mime
51 Potshots
53 Sprinkle ( with) 56 Second- busiest
airport in the U. S.
57 ___ ears
60 Houseware brand that’s easy to read in a mirror
61 Keeps going despite fatigue … or a hint to three features of this puzzle
65 Military missions, informally
66 Wedding wear
67 Laugh riot
68 Opposition
69 Spot
70 They may be given in relief
Down
1 Promote
2 It’s used to carry
out an order
3 Gear for the bench
4 Fracas
5 Look over
6 Oscar winner Mahershala
7 Corp. leader in charge of 35- Down
8 Not- so- great depression
9 John of “Being John Malkovich”
10 Enthusiastic reply to “Wanna try?”
11 Go slowly
12 “___ with me?”
14 Many a 4WD ride
18 Name on both “The Simpsons” and “South Park”
23 They cause rolling of the eyes, not rolling in the aisles
24 Woos outside one’s league, so to speak
25 Misleading malware
26 It brings the heat
28 Place to catch shrimp
29 Not accidental
31 Aid in catching shrimp
32 Had a homecooked meal
33 Observance once known as Quadragesima ( Latin for “fortieth”)
34 Harrison, e. g., but not Ford
35 Figures, e. g.
40 Gets darker, in a way
45 Ones arranging spots
47 Gall
48 Approximate weight of a liter of water
52 Green splats, on Rotten Tomatoes
53 [ And … it’s gone!]
54 Fair
55 Bemoans
57 Format of a digital pic
58 Its name is said to mean “people of the mountains”
59 Where squatters may be seen
62 Defeat just barely
63 Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to “WI”
64 3- D test