NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 ___ California
5 Frequent sights in Road Runner cartoons
10 Attempt
14 Vegetarian substitute for gelatin
15 “Silence is the most perfect expression of ___” (line in a Shaw play)
16 Philosopher
David
17 Despicable … or where this answer goes?
20 Paradises
21 Output of Santa’s workshop
22 Retort to
4-Down
23 Dandies
25 Moving around very nicely, thank you
26 Nonstop joker
28 Midday break
32 Merit badge
holder
35 Nearly forever
36 What to expect between June and September in India
38 What’s what,
in Italy
39 Sick … or where this answer goes?
42 “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord …,” e.g.
43 “Diamonds” 44 Habitat for bitterns and herons
45 ___ walk
47 University whose name is also a food
49 Levels
52 Knuckleheaded
act?
56 Is indebted to
57 Side to be
considered
61 “I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in ___”: James Brown
62 Latent … or where this answer goes?
65 Notable time
66 Shipping route
67 Burnish
68 Servius Tullius, e.g., in ancient Rome
69 Part of w.p.m.:
Abbr.
70 One-eighty
71 Like some wines
and humor
DOWN
1 Hon
2 Like sharp
cheddar
3 Longtime actress costarring in Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie”
4 Schoolyard
denial
5 Winter hrs. in
the Midwest
6 Fünf + drei 7 2017 Pixar hit
8 Where Paris
took Helen
9 Holiday ___
10 Heavy scissors
11 Possible result of overeating, informally
12 Roadies’ loads
13 Texas politico
O’rourke
18 “Poor venomous fool,” to Cleopatra
19 A hot one is
timely
24 Place for a coin
25 Old woman’s home, in a children’s rhyme
26 Enlist again
27 Na+ and Cl–
29 Square
30 Tiny fraction of
a min.
31 Shrink in fear
33 What dogs do
in the spring
34 One of a pair of
towel markings 36 Citi Field
mascot
37 Drug trafficker,
informally
40 City across the Rio Grande from Juárez
41 Drive … or drive
mad?
46 Drifted
downriver, say
48 Not off key
49 Not drunk
50 Quaint
contraction
51 “Stop worrying!”
53 Play defense
against
54 Run up, as
charges
55 Barely make it
58 Cries of
discovery
59 Animated
frame
60 Biblical twin
63 Indianapolis-tost. Louis dir.
64 Female Jedi in
“Star Wars”