NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Vehicles on snow-covered hills
6 Watering place for a camel
11 Indoor animal
14 “The Fox and the Grapes” storyteller 15 Trick-taking card game 16 Messenger ___ 17 Large bird of prey with a brownishyellow neck 19 Suffix with cynic or skeptic
20 Pleased
21 Hombre
22 Pool stick
23 Make excited, as a crowd 26 Smooshed into compact layers 28 ___ carte (ordered separately)
29 Blue race in “Avatar”
31 Kind of pickle
32 ___ for tat
33 Actor Kevin whose last name shares four letters with his first
35 Eric Clapton hit that’s over seven minutes long
38 Light bulb unit 40 Butchers’ offerings
42 Like tops and tales
43 Speak extemporaneously
45 Boringly proper 47 Conclude
48 Greek god of love
50 Away from the wind, nautically 51 It’s just a number, they say
52 Single, double and triple, on the diamond 55 Shows mercy to 57 Plant bristle 58 Poet’s “before” 59 Olla podrida, for one
60 Sheep’s cry
61 Where you can find a 17-Across perched on an 11-Down devouring a 25-Down 66 Noah’s construction 67 Opening remarks
68 One of the Allman
Brothers
69 Envision
70 Valuable item 71 New York’s Memorial
___ Kettering Cancer Center
DOWN
1 Droop
2 Zodiac sign before Virgo 3 Course for some immigrants, in brief
4 Historic Kansas fort name 5 Explore caves 6 Like debts
7 “Bingo!”
8 Letter after rho 9 Cuba or Aruba 10 Sign maker’s pattern
11 Cactus with an edible fruit 12 Follow as a consequence 13 No longer feral 18 Incendiary bomb material 23 Formal ruling on a point of Islamic law 24 Trojan War epic poem 25 Venomous predator with a vibrating tail 26 They get smashed at parties
27 “Sadly …” 30 Strives for victory
34 And others: Abbr.
36 Sudden forward thrust
37 World’s longest continental mountain range 39 Lose stamina
41 Afternoon nap 44 European region that lent its name to a nonconforming lifestyle
46 “Could be …” 49 Ambulance sounds 52 Rum-soaked desserts
53 In the loop 54 Messages that sometimes contain emojis 56 Really, really bad
59 Get off ___-free 62 Fury 63 Philosopher ___-tzu
64 Get ___ on (ace)
65 Four-star officer: Abbr.