NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Easter starter?
4 Element of an English Opening in chess
8 Hayek who portrayed Frida Kahlo
13 “___ got a feeling …”
14 George who wrote “Romola”
16 “See ya!”
17 Gathering of protesters
19 Models used in copying
20 What might have bumps on a log?
21 DVR pioneer
23 The last pope Julius
24 Makes the rounds
26 Large, flightless birds
29 Sort who’s easy to tick off
31 King at the start of “Game of Thrones”
32 Influential ties
33 Grassy expanses
36 Backing
37 Overnight work assignment … or a hint to understanding four rows of answers in this puzzle
40 Cry at la Copa Mundial
41 The other side
42 Forensic inits.
45 Sections of a barn
48 Tried casually, with “in”
51 Chilly
54 Fresh start, metaphorically
55 “You got it!”
56 Draped garment
58 ___ mater
59 Work as an interpreter
62 Size option at Starbucks
65 Sister ___ Prejean, author of the 1993 best seller “Dead Man Walking”
66 Makes less difficult
67 Top, for instance, but not bottom
68 Onetime Ford executive
69 Cry of accomplishment
70 It’s stored in a vein
Down
1 Nada
2 Good thing to give someone while standing
3 Comebacks
4 Chicken king?
5 Chicken ___ king
6 What leftover salad greens do in the refrigerator
7 “I swear!”
8 Took the bench, say
9 Lime chaser? 10 Capped
11 More petulant, in a way
12 World Cup datum
15 “I really appreciate it!,” in textspeak
18 For one
22 For us
24 X
25 Pinch in the kitchen
27 Idle
28 Slightly
30 Camper’s protection
34 Camper’s detritus
35 Molt
37 Lazily lie
38 “It was ___ dream”
39 Big Sur runner beginning in 2020
40 Euphemism for a lesbian couple
42 Hybrid beverage in a Bloody Caesar cocktail
43 One in 100
44 Points to, in a way
45 Cutter with a curve
46 Saw the sights
47 You might check their crossings: Abbr.
49 Good name for a firefighter? 50 Something dingy?
52 Piece of an overhanging roof
53 Stomach-dropping feeling
57 “___ doing ...”
60 Former name signifier
61 Show with “featured players,” in brief
63 X
64 Body part affected by heterochromia