Las Vegas Review-Journal

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Tricked by doing something unexpected­ly, with “out”

6 Original airer of “Doctor Who” and “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”

9 Jitter-free jitter

juice

14 Slicker, as winter highways

15 Writer Tolstoy

16 Speechify

17 Sweet item at a

bakery

19 One streaming on Twitch, maybe

20 Wedding vow

21 “In memoriam”

piece

22 Drinking mug

23 Keep watch while a homeowner’s away

26 Drs.’ co-workers

27 Categorize

30 Zippo

32 Not an original,

informally

33 Bar-to-bar

activity

37 Skater Lipinski

38 Heart chambers

39 What a smiley or frowny emoji indicates

41 What a speaker or musician may adjust before starting

43 Immature bug

44 Tidy 45 Wagered

46 Green item proffered by Sam-i-am

48 Easy win

52 Tally mark

54 The “E” in

PG&E: Abbr.

55 “___ unto them that call evil good, and good evil”: Isaiah

58 In flames

59 Small advances … or the progressio­n suggested by the ends of 17-, 23-, 33-, 41- and 48-Across

62 Police trainee

63 Convenienc­e for withdrawin­g $$$

64 Appear out of

nowhere

65 Maples and

myrtles

66 Mattress’s

place

67 Nervous about

what’s ahead

DOWN

1 Island group whose name is a brand of water

2 Got an A on

3 Metric weight,

informally

4 Slithery fish

5 Thirsty

6 Ill-defined

shapes

7 Misreprese­nt

8 Fillies’

counterpar­ts 9 Sirius … or Lassie, for example?

10 It was: Lat.

11 Job for a cinema

tographer

12 Didn’t go out to

a restaurant

13 Some greenery

on forest floors

18 Give a drubbing

23 Roman poet who wrote “Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!”

24 Spanish gold

25 Member of an early Andean civilizati­on

27 Field of Frida Kahlo or El Greco

28 Coal deposit

29 Shore phenomenon around the time of the new and full moons

31 Tablecloth fabric

33 School fund

raising org.

34 “Ode on a

Grecian ___”

35 Action on ebay

36 Score before 15,

in tennis

38 Lead-in to girl

or boy

40 Family man

42 Scented bags

43 Rap’s ___

Wayne

45 R-rated, say

46 Put into law

47 Succeed in life

49 Shish ___

50 Gladden

51 Popular health

info source

53 First Nations

group

55 Shed tears

56 Magnum ___

57 Catch sight of

60 Place to get a

mani-pedi

61 Truckload unit

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