NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Royal Catherine
5 All-day, in a way
9 Rides
13 Agave lookalike
14 Spring, for one
15 Fancy summer home
16 Grocery store worker on the days leading up to Thanksgiving?
19 Dress (up)
20 Cheesemaking town
21 Salty expanses
22 Incense residue
23 One who’s acting out?
24 Some trimmings
25 Pamphlets on how to use marinara?
31 Lecherous sort
33 Beginning of time?
34 When doubled, mouse-bopping bunny in a children’s song
35 Sporty Pontiac
38 One with a tattoo of a band’s name, say
41 Oxygen makes up only one-fifth of this on the earth
42 Gossip, slangily
44 Part of some musical keys 45 Bookie?
50 Card game shout
51 Winners of a 1932 Australian “war”
52 Org. using millimeter wave scanners
55 Inedible jelly on a buffet table
58 49-Down’s city, familiarly
59 Shubert of Broadway’s Shubert Theatre
60 Devices that help dentists monitor anesthesia?
63 En pointe
64 Its flag has “Allahu Akbar” written 22 times 65 Repeated words
in an analogy 66 Common catch 67 Hunt and peck,
say
68 Pronto
Down
1 It gets into hot
water
2 Chorus section 3 Inauspicious
beginning 4 Certain whistleblower
5 Hardly basic 6 Personal friend in
France 7 Something cephalopods control for camouflage 8 Units on a graduated cylinder: Abbr. 9 Fine point 10 ___-Seltzer 11 Campbell with the 1975 #1 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy” 12 2003 outbreak 15 Outspoken 17 Pelvis/patella
connectors 18 Sticky ___
pudding 26 Author Rand 27 It’s set in a ring 28 Easy-peasy 29 Speckled 30 Maker of the first portable music player
31 Guess
32 Grammy winner
India.___ 36 When both
hands are up 37 Unit of RAM 39 Passes, but not
with flying colors 40 Shinzo ___, Japan’s longestserving prime minister 43 Representative’s
work
46 Powerful engines 47 Feature of many
a belly
48 Angsty hip-hop
subgenre 49 Prestigious university in 58-Across 53 Company whose mascots are sheep with numbers painted on them 54 Author whose titles often feature two animals
55 One with an upturned nose, so to speak 56 Common catch 57 CPR specialists 61 “Scram!”
62 Car once advertised with the slogan “The power to surprise”