NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Part of a Tibetan leader’s title
6 San Luis ___, Calif.
12 Catch in the act
15 Official decree
16 Polishing aids
17 Park in Manhattan, e.g.: Abbr.
18 Disciple of Haile Selassie, informally
19 As part of a performing duo in 1991; as a solo artist in 2021
21 What might help someone get a leg up?
23 “Cool!”
24 Take home
25 As part of a band in 1998; as a solo artist in 2019
27 Put on staff
28 Vessel that’s a homophone of
24-Across
29 Get ___ on (ace)
30 “Place” on a Monopoly board
32 Lowest pitches in
chords
36 One end of a
battery
37 As part of a songwriting duo in 1990; as a solo artist in 2021
40 Really got to
43 “Rule” stating that the number of transistors per microchip doubles every two years
47 Brit who wrote “The Vanishing Half”
50 Meadow
51 Former Giants QB Manning
52 Understanding of a situation
53 With
60-Across, institution in which 19-, 25and 37-Across are (thus far) the only three women ever to be inducted twice
57 “Waterloo” group
58 Acronym that might be shouted before a rash act
59 Heavens on earth 60 See
53-Across
63 “So sad”
65 Serving from a tap
66 Laughed loudly
67 Janelle who sang
2010’s “Tightrope”
68 There are about five of these in a tsp.
69 Way off base
70 Strict
Down
1 German article
2 2019 sci-fi film whose title means “to the stars”
3 Lends an ear
4 Penultimate part of a Shakespeare play
5 Architectural style started, strangely, in England
6 Canadian Thanksgiving mo.
7 Russian pancakes
8 Kind of chemical bond
9 Shelving area in a library
10 Part of a water quality evaluation
11 Buckeye State sch.
12 Vancouver Island city
13 Contended
14 ___ mountain dog (breed named for its origins near the Swiss capital)
20 Installs again, as a painting
22 Kind of sax 25 Hoagie
26 Grp. known as OTAN in France
31 Social worker who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
33 Skeleton that’s no longer in the closet?
34 Stately tree
35 Concern for online advertisers, for short
38 Caffeinecontaining nut
39 Goddess of peace
40 Isaac’s father, in
the Bible
41 Game with a bat
42 Gives permission
44 Proud and regal
45 Like some casts or
teams
46 Actor Wheaton
48 Strive to achieve
49 Over the bounds
54 Composer Schumann
55 Susan G. ___ (breast cancer advocacy organization)
56 Transfer, as a tulip
61 It’s unrefined
62 Summer hrs. in Pittsburgh
64 Japanese currency