NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Something a
student may cut 6 Doesn’t bother 12 Team V.I.P.s 15 Author of “The Eagle and the Fox” and “The Fox and the Lion” 16 Where to watch the Lightning and Hurricanes 17 Porridge grain 18 Region that spans about 8% of the earth’s land area [Arabic] 20 Attempt
21 Rodin sculpture featuring a couple whose lips don’t quite touch
22 “My Gal ___” 23 Fencing option 24 Addams family
cousin
25 Body of water bordering Nevada and California [Washoe]
27 Actor McGregor 30 Biological
molecule
32 Days past 33 Shakespearean
fairy queen 34 Playground retort 37 Electricity bill
datum 40 Landmark on which most U.S. radio stations base the starts of their call signs, with “W” on the east and “K” on the west [Algonquin] 43 Together (with) 44 Clay targets,
informally 45 Official language
of Ghana: Abbr. 46 Certain mattress
material 48 Commonly torn
band, for short 49 Excited about 50 Nation that shares an island with part of Indonesia [Indonesian] 54 Fall behind 56 Takes home 57 Governor
DeSantis 58 Commercial
spaces in an app 62 “Mud”
63 Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50- Across vis-àvis the bracketed languages 65 Undivided 66 Look away from 67 Wombs
68 Big fashion inits. 69 Some downtown
street liners 70 Start over
DOWN
1 Dramatis personae portrayers 2 Actress and documentarian Remini
3 Arthur of the
court
4 Be absorbed, as
a marinade
5 Pole that extends
a sail
6 Fellows
7 Prior to, in poetry 8 ___ Virtue, three-time world ice dancing champion
9 Sly sort
10 Grain in some
hearty soup
11 Is French? 12 What all good children do, in a nursery rhyme 13 Penguins great
Lemieux
14 Do, as hair 19 First M.L.B. team to use artificial turf in its stadium 23 Persian language 25 Eye-opening
experience? 26 They might be
guided
27 ___ Raducanu, 2021 U.S. Open women’s tennis champion
28 Cry out
29 What some workout videos promise
31 Loch ___ 34 Investigate
persistently 35 Ape’s weapon in “Planet of the Apes” 36 International oil
grp.
38 Fellow 39 Therefore
41 Little brats 42 “That’s sufficient,
I guess”
47 It’s just an illusion 49 Take a lighter to 50 “Have fun!” 51 Long, long times 52 Get on
53 How ballerinas
often perform 55 Fortune tell 58 Some pub brews 59 Freezes (over) 60 Scale button 61 Thin cut
63 Cook with a long
history at Apple 64 Bobby of Bruins
lore