NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Bunch of wolves or cards
5 Busy with other
things
11 The Beatles’ “Till
There ___ You” 14 Jai ___ (sport) 15 Francis of old TV’S “What’s My Line?”
16 It clinks in a
drink
17 Nurses, as a
drink
18 Swamp in
“Pogo”
20 In few words
22 Museumfunding org.
23 Like auto shop
rags
24 1990s cartoon series featuring Yakko, Wakko and Dot
27 Org. featured in the documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” 28 Abbr. meaning
“and others”
29 Arizona college
town
31 Some Best Buy
buys, for short 34 Doggie doc
36 Bones next to ulnae 39 Baby-boomer series that starred Ken Olin
44 Indian stringed instrument 45 Around
50.25% of the world’s adult population 46 Letters before an alias
47 Meters and liters
50 Eve’s man
53 Pinnacle
55 Poet William who wrote “The Prelude”
60 Play opener
61 Flamenco cheer
62 Reproductive cell for a fern
63 South American rodent with soft, dense fur
67 One may be half-baked or brilliant
68 “___ soon?”
69 “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” author Joan
70 Must-have
71 ID in the form xxx-xx-xxxx
72 X-ray follow-up, perhaps
73 Deities
DOWN
1 Linguine or fettuccine
2 Not from Earth
3 ___ pants (cropped style popularized in the 1960s)
4 Instruction to Kate in a Cole Porter title
5 “___ Te Ching”
6 Rub the wrong way
7 Justice Kagan
8 Reason for a markdown
9 Disquieted state
10 Writing implement filled with 37Down
11 Popular online reference
12 Amtrak express train
13 “So long!”
19 Tuba sound
21 Enjoy a meal
25 Dark shade of blue
26 Parts of a French archipelago
30 Actor with the famous line “I pity the fool!”
31 Six for a TD, e.g.
32 Ho ___ Minh City
33 Word before room or comedy
35 Male cat
37 10-Down filler
38 “Hometown proud” supermarket
40 Jeannette ___, first woman elected to Congress
41 Prefix between bi- and quad-------
42 Cultural anthropologist Margaret
43 Make ___ meet
48 Like some wellpitched games
49 One side in eight-ball pool
51 “How cute!” sounds
52 In a sulk
53 Agreements
54 Amazon speakers introduced in 2014
56 Archaeologist’s find
57 Contest with roping and riding
58 Cornered, in a way
59 Two are better than one, they say
64 Public health agcy.
65 Mauna ___ (Hawaiian volcano)
66 Journalist Curry