NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mint ___
6 Franz who wrote “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us”
11 Dream time, in
brief
14 Everything
together
15 “… the bombs
bursting ___”
16 I
17 Prospect
18 Interval for a scheduled blastoff
20 10th and 11th,
e.g.
22 Serves and
receives, say
23 Westernmost country in continental Afr.
24 Quick haircut
26 Blizzards are produced in them, familiarly
29 Press (down)
32 Extremely
36 They intersect
in Montréal
38 ___ Paulo
39 Kind of planning
40 Carriers of meteorological instruments … as suggested by this puzzle’s theme?
43 Immediately
following
44 Cloth that goes
to waist?
45 Overindulger of
the grape
46 Beginnings 47 Lawless figure with legendary fighting skills
49 Office linkup
50 Repeated things in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”
52 Worker for a
hosp., maybe
54 Gradually
faster, in mus.
57 Rend
63 Wonder-ful
product?
65 Locale of 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle
66 ___ Honor
67 Absinthe
flavorer
68 Kind of account
69 “___-hoo!”
70 Speeches that
go off the rails
71 Smooth and
lustrous
DOWN
1 Malarkey
2 Pioneering computer operating system
3 Word with dance or chance
4 High rollers?
5 World
6 Place for a firing
7 Stands up for dustpans, say: Abbr.
8 Inspiration for “Damn Yankees”
9 Family 10 Like a newspaper’s morgue files
11 Puts back in its original state, as a videotape
12 Barbra Streisand
collection?
13 Does a landscaper’s job
19 ASDFGHJKL;’,
on a keyboard
21 More or less
25 Premium movie
theater seat
26 Long-running sci-fi show, for short
27 Contestant on “Rupaul’s Drag Race”
28 Roebuck’s onetime business partner
30 Bang up, e.g.
31 Alternative to a
street address
33 Grease up again
34 Ingredient in some medicinal teas
35 Director Welles
37 Saturated (in)
41 Where drinks may be charged to a room
42 Lisa Simpson’s
grandpa
48 Wows
51 Writer Gertrude
53 Scary cry on a
beach
54 Like most
fireplace grates
55 Royal role for
Liz
56 Enemy of Antony, in ancient Rome
58 From Eden to the land of Nod, e.g.
59 Fruit drinks
60 Product offering “round the clock protection”
61 Composer Satie
62 Trust
64 Aid in protein
synthesis