NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Floating ice
chunk
5 House of mirrors at a carnival, for one
9 Takes a load off 14 Skunk’s defense 15 Leon who wrote
“Exodus”
16 Super17 “___ upon a time
…”
18 Loud, prolonged
noises
19 ___ badge (award
for a scout) 20 Stick your tongue
out, say
22 Use an
e-cigarette
23 Kind of exam at school or the dentist’s
24 Like oldfashioned railroad crossing signs
27 Tinder or Hinge 29 Beer ingredient 32 ___ trick (hockey
feat)
33 College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa 34 Move onto a new topic of conversation, metaphorically 39 Campus quarters 41 Beverage that comes in green and black varieties
42 Jacket fastener that’s not a button
43 Pass to a different owner, as a business 48 Aunt: Sp. 49 Electric ___ 50 Princess who says “Into the garbage chute, flyboy” 51 Traveler’s
stopover
52 Best Rap Performance and Best Instrumental Composition, for two
56 “Get outta here!” 58 Hershey’s candy with a caramel center
59 Epitome of precision … or a description of 20-, 34- and 43-Across?
64 “You can’t make
me!”
66 Capital of Italia 67 Yoke-wearing
animals 68 Enclose, as on a
farm 69 ___-friendly 70 One-dimensional
drawing 71 Upright
72 Put a patch on,
say
73 Winter forecast,
often
Down
1 Sound of an explosion
2 ___ Mode of “The Incredibles”
3 Pink Floyd’s “The
Wall,” for one 4 Actress Garson of “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
5 Landslide of wet
sediment 6 Diva’s delivery 7 97.5% of a penny 8 County in England or New Jersey
9 Pirate’s bottleful 10 Gives a lift 11 Wristwatch
component 12 Balderdash 13 Having had
enough food 21 Sounds from a
sauna
25 “Quiet!”
26 Witch
27 “Back in Black”
band 28 “Hunny”-loving A.
A. Milne character 30 Bitter part of an
orange
31 Thieve
35 Bit of Christmas
candy
36 Venom
neutralizer, e.g. 37 Spring forecast,
often 38 Bridge
40 Memory device like “How I wish I could calculate pi,” e.g.
44 Jewel
45 Ron of “Tarzan”
fame
46 Throw out
47 Bag
52 Complaint 53 Crew team
member
54 Flying solo 55 Rugby formation 57 Army no-shows 60 Finish last, say 61 A rainbow may be seen as a good one 62 Nevada’s “Biggest Little City in the World” 63 Understood 65 Maker of an
explosion