NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Small headache 5 Onetime chain that offered Free Battery Club memberships 15 10-Down

highlight 16 Best-selling heavy metal band named for a torture device

17 Big ol’ mouth 18 Brushing, e.g. 19 TV character who said “I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T!”

21 Old worker with

pads

22 Big ol’ mouth 23 Pine product 25 It’s flat on a

snapback 26 Coin-___

27 8 vis-à-vis 2 29 Aimee ___ McPherson, evangelist behind America’s first megachurch 34 Vulnerable newcomers, in slang

37 Field

38 Duo in an

ellipse 39 Intoxicate 41 They might be gathered by the pound

42 Bio subj. 43 Labor union offering, perhaps

45 More than

dangerous 48 Part

49 Banned Books

Week org.

50 ___ Yaga

(folklore villain) 52 Release

54 Its structure was evidenced by Photo 51, an X-ray captured in 1952 57 Several Russian

czars

59 Cocktail tidbit 61 Going from 99

to 100, say 64 Archer of note 65 In hot pursuit 66 See 60-Down 67 Experts in

English? 68 Sharp, in a way

Down

1 Trail

2 Like a

butterfingers 3 Bucky in the comic strip “Get Fuzzy,” e.g. 4 Patches up, in a

way

5 Clear

6 Foe of Wonder

Woman

7 “Stay in touch!” 8 Place

underground 9 Subjects of a

certain sultanate 10 Strauss work with the “Dance of the Seven Veils”

11 Flashin’ Fruit

Punch brand 12 #1 dad? 13 Michael who played George Michael Bluth on TV

14 Was aware 20 Like angel investors and devil’s food cake 24 Not sensitive

(to)

26 Viscera 28 Queen’s

subjects

30 Not natural 31 The art of

politics? 32 Entitled sort 33 Desire of a quick

study?

35 Emperor’s order in “Star Wars” 36 Fatty tuna in Japanese cuisine

40 Register

44 Stay good 46 Goes along with 47 Extravagant 51 Where to get money in Milano

53 Bit of a character

54 Go down

55 You shouldn’t

do this

56 What you might unthinkingly be on

58 Gone down 60 With 66-Across,

“Good thinking!” 62 Senators’ org. 63 Three for a trey:

Abbr.