NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Petite pooch, familiarly
4 Small lumps
8 Plot twists may elicit them
13 Group of docs
14 Aware of, as a scheme
15 Lassie, for one
16 Singer Benatar feels blue
18 Consignment shop business
19 Aromatic dried pepper
20 Author Grafton has arrived for dinner
22 An alto probably can’t hit it
25 California ball team
26 Actress Wells has just entered the scene
28 First company to feature a gay couple in a mainstream U.S. TV ad (1994)
29 How a used item may be sold
30 Slugger’s stat
32 Stop by
36 Tailor’s concern
37 Actor Nicholson will bat next
40 Medium for some sculptures with short lifespans
41 Sample
43 “Fly swatter” for an elephant
44 One of a fairy tale threesome
45 Jazzy James
48 Baseball’s Boggs has agreed to join us
50 Shot follower
52 Online magazine covering politics and culture
53 Actor Norris got tagged
55 ___ Lama
58 Chart-topper, e.g.
59 TV father Cleaver has just left the starting line
62 Some garden dwellers
63 Skin care brand
64 Org. with an inspector general
65 Located (in)
66 Lily that is Utah’s state flower
67 Head of England?
DOWN
1 “Come to ___”
2 Country whose name can be an exclamation
3 Compete intellectually (with)
4 Condo restriction
5 Numero ___
6 “Just so you know…,” in a text
7 “___ and Lovers” (D. H. Lawrence novel)
8 Throws a lo-o-ong pass
9 One who didn’t make it to the office
10 “12 Years a ___”
11 Things some sorters make
12 Oracle
15 Sound like an old floorboard
17 Protected body parts for goalies and baseball catchers
21 News inits.
23 Circular wedding dance
24 “Fast Money” channel
26 Addlebrained
27 Locale of both the highest and lowest points on the earth’s surface
31 Mike’s candy partner
33 Some engine fuel
34 Purple berry
35 Relative of a sea gull
37 Zipped along on a watercraft
38 Proverbs
39 Name of a mountain range or a river
42 “How do you do it? I want to know”
44 Trial stages
46 Trial stages
47 The Cards, on scoreboards
49 Cool cat
50 Where the compass was invented
51 Science fiction awards
53 Classic N.Y.C. punk rock venue
54 Counting by them takes half the time
56 Big do
57 In that case
60 Ginger ___
61 Jaunty piano tune