NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Make sense
6 Many a getrich-quick scheme
10 Meal cooked in
a Crock-pot
14 Atlanta train
system
15 Wife of Zeus
16 Domesticated 17 Moolah
18 Distance between belt holes, maybe 19 Sign at a highway interchange
20 Capable of floating, as a balloon
23 Low-ranking “Star Trek” officer: Abbr. 24 Sombrero, e.g. 25 Smidgen
26 Neon or xenon 27 Soul singer
Thomas
29 Wail
32 Sanctimonious 36 Ken, to Barbie 37 “Rocks,” in a
drink
38 Captain’s place
on a ship
39 Imposing and
then some
44 Units on a football field: Abbr.
45 ___ Susan (dining table centerpiece) 46 How long it might take for a mountain to form 47 Word before
“bite” or “go” 48 Rapper ___-Z
49 Word sometimes confused with “lie”
52 “Let’s put things in perspective” … or a title for this puzzle
57 Martin
Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham ___”
58 Debtors’ notes 59 Brain divisions 60 Gawk at
61 ___ menu
(where to find Cut, Copy and Paste)
62 Longtime
Yankees manager Joe
63 Runner Usain 64 Where bears
hibernate
65 Gives a thumbsup
DOWN
1 Saunter
2 1950s-’60s
singer Bobby
3 Bottom of the
barrel
4 Salt Lake City’s
home
5 Stir-fried noodle
dish
6 Jersey
7 Penny
8 Feature over many a doorway
9 Honorific for
Gandhi 10 Ending with
farm or home
11 Move from the gate to the runway, say
12 Mideast bigwig 13 “Caution — ___
paint” (sign)
21 Simplicity
22 Vindaloo accompaniment
26 When repeated, water cooler sound
27 Like a poison ivy
rash
28 Mother of
Zeus (and an anagram of 15-Across)
29 “Give my compliments to the ___”
30 Part to play
31 “De-e-elish!”
32 Chairperson,
e.g.
33 Cousins of
paddles
34 Cracker brand with a yellowand-blue logo
35 Like Girl Scout
“Mints”
36 Pioneering
journalist Nellie 40 Woman’s name that’s also a Spanish pronoun
41 Made a
comeback
42 1963 Best
Actress Patricia 43 Never betraying 47 Speck of land in
the sea
48 Kids around
49 The Scales
50 Big office
supply brand
51 Positive
responses
52 Shakespeare villain who says “Virtue? A fig!” 53 Cash register
drawer
54 Rich vein of ore 55 Pompeii or
Machu Picchu 56 Nabbed
57 What you’re
hired to do