East Bay Times

The New York Times

- By Jack Murtaugh

ACROSS

1 They may be switched while cycling

6 Shorthand pro

11 Crossword

solver’s cry

14 Deity with 99

names

15 Raphael, Gabriel

or Michael

17 Cradlin’ a Salinger

protagonis­t?

19 Preserve, as ashes

20 Vodka brand,

informally

21 “Footloose” star cookin’ a fresh batch of brownies?

26 “Need an ark? I Noah guy,” and others

27 Blond at the bar,

say

28 Letters on a luxury

handbag

29 Chips brand

31 Sentence … or something found in a sentence

33 Did so-so at school

34 The Great Emancipato­r sharin’ URLs on his blog?

40 Cover for illicit

activity

41 “Right on!”

43 “I don’t want to hear the gory details”

46 ___-C.I.O.

49 Strands in a cell

1 50 Four-time Grammy

winner India.___

51 Bein’ in debt to a “Wedding Crashers” co-star?

54 Some burrowing

mouselike rodents

56 One-point

Scrabble draw

57 Massachuse­tts senator wagin’ conflict?

63 Houseplant that some think brings luck and prosperity

64 One in 1,000?

65 Beat it!

66 Bee teem?

67 Internet admin

DOWN

1 Cry of frustratio­n

2 Chess rating

system

3 ___ fours

4 Minute hands,

essentiall­y

5 Climb (up), as a

pole

6 Related to

religious rites

7 Sedative in a blowgun dart, informally

8 Old French coin

9 Org. for Ducks and

Penguins

10 Bunglers

11 Get too old to

qualify

12 “Over my dead

body!”

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13 Hugo-winning “Hothouse” author Brian

16 Particular­ly

particular

18 Pencil remnants

21 Actress Dennings

22 Philosophe­r Zeno’s

birthplace

23 Crow, but not

magpie

24 “American ___”

25 “Moi? Never!”

30 Went on, as an

errand

32 Gotham City supervilla­in in a cryogenic suit

33 Intl. standard used by many astrologer­s

35 Amount to

36 Our genus

37 Freshly

38 Roadside bombs,

for short

39 One-billionth:

Prefix

42 Solo in

spacefligh­t?

43 “I need a hero!”

44 Computer language that sounds like a literary intro

45 Under the weather

46 “Ode to Joy,” for the European Union

47 Texter’s “I think”

48 New Hampshire

state flowers

52 Bury

53 The “L” of Samuel

L. Jackson

55 Declares

58 As an aside, in a

text

59 The “E” of B.C.E.

60 Info in an apt.

listing

61 Texter’s “I think”

62 Catch some Z’s

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