NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Thing with pads

and claws

4 Wanders

9 Rod, reel, tackle box, etc., for a fisher

13 Olympic Dream

Team inits.

14 Place in a

mausoleum

16 ___ Tokarczuk, 2018 Literature Nobelist

17 Raiser of the

dead?

19 Musk who founded

Spacex

20 Brainstorms

21 Go by, as time 23 Young Scottish

lady

24 Financial aid for college that doesn’t need to be repaid

27 Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q

29 Person with a

basket or cart 31 Mixed-breed dog that’s part spaniel

35 “Keen!”

36 “That’s ___ from

me” (refusal)

37 Arthropod that can roll into a ball

40 Melted

chocolate, e.g. 41 Word before

mall or poker

43 Right to cross someone else’s land

45 Unlucky 48 Start of a newspaper article, in journalese

49 Busy person just before an election

51 Pledge drive

giveaway

55 Fix, as a shoe 56 Insects that

love wool

57 Appropriate initials of “stuff we all get”

59 Lures for magazine readers

62 Tiny bit

63 Minneapolis’s

twin city

64 Defining period 65 Banana leftover 66 Cosmetician

Lauder

67 Singer Lana Del

___

DOWN

1 Necessity for a

teacher

2 Carne ___ (grilled beef dish)

3 Home of Cardiff

and Swansea

4 Yanks’ foes

5 Number said just before “Liftoff!”

6 ___ snail’s pace 7 Edible mushroom with a honeycomb cap

8 Gets a whiff of

9 Flips out

10 Best Actress nominee for “Juno” 11 “A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away …” (“Star Wars” intro)

12 Tried to get

elected

15 “Erin go ___!”

18 Elective eye

surgery

22 Having tines

24 Big ___, nickname of baseball’s David Ortiz

25 Unstable chemical compound

26 Grand ___

National Park 28 Comes down a mountain, in a way

30 Rummage

(around)

31 Alternative to

Venmo

32 Like some beer

at a bar

33 Related to big

business

34 Cry to a

toreador

38 Hay unit 12/14/2020

39 For whom a product designer designs

42 Against the law 44 Trending hashtag beginning in 2017

46 Dots on a

transit map

47 What lieutenants do to captains

50 “Trees” in underwater forests

52 It’s said to have the thickest fur of any mammal 53 When repeated, comforting words

54 Op-ed piece,

e.g.

56 Farm animal

that kicks

57 Sample a soda,

say

58 Tribulation

60 Back muscle,

for short

61 “What?,” in

Oaxaca