NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Needing some 5 kneading, Language which person told “Yer a might nutty bum’s say in be 10 Hunting oot the windae” store

purchase 14 Hook’s henchman 15 Stamp holder 16 Birthday ___ 17 Basic idea

18 Items that are hard to throw away?

20 Remedy 22 Troublemaker of

1-Down 23 Important piece

in échecs 24 Money-collecting

org.

25 Word included to

prevent libel, say 28 Rough write-up 30 Ballet basic

31 Losing tic-tac-toe

row

32 Cry of dismay in

5-Across

34 Singer/songwriter

Corinne Bailey

___

35 Landed

36 Work suggested by this puzzle’s circled and shaded squares

41 Strongly

advocate

42 -: Abbr.

43 One of the

Kennedys

44 Pudding flavor

45 Big name in

in-flight internet ___ Nadu 50 52 46 (Indian America star Betty” Extinct bird of TV’s flightless state) ___, “Ugly 54 55 Lead-in puncture Actress Chaplin to 56 Like air mattress an unused 58 That’s me! gnus to 61 Shortcoming 62 Word before rich or talk 63 Rent 64 Swiss Alp next to Lake Lucerne 65 Just OK 66 Small and pointyeared, perhaps 67 What “exaggerated” is sometimes misspelled with

Down

1 Mythical realm accessible only by the rainbow bridge Bifrost 2 Key to this puzzle’s theme? 3 Greek goddess of

the hearth

4 Sight on Disney World’s Expedition Everest ride 5 Flavor: Sp.

6 Sticks together 7 Instrument featured in 36-Across

8 Rum ___ Tugger

(“Cats” cat)

9 Most foul

10 Up 11 Puttering around? 12 Flavor enhancer 13 Exclamations of surprise 19 Credit line? 21 Leave behind 25 ___ Freed, early radio personality who coined the term “rock ’n’ roll” 26 It takes people out 27 Biblical verb 29 What the opening motif of 36-Across is said to represent 30 Response to “Grazie!” 33 Epithet for a judge

35 Lover of Radames, in opera 36 Muscly

37 Tribe that fought the Iroquois

38 Servings with sweet-and-sour sauce 39 Summer Triangle star

40 ___ position 45 Something editable using CRISPR technology 47 Oscar winner Marlee 48 Cooling-off period?

49 First name of this puzzle’s dedicatee, born December 1770 51 Copland ballet with a hoedown 52 Longtime star of F.C. Barcelona 53 A lot

56 What 49-Down became in later life

57 Prefix with Cuban 58 Ill. neighbor 59 Formal “yes” 60 Reef predator