NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Extended feature of “Hey Jude” and “Layla”
5 Heat setting, in brief
8 Many morality tales
14 Mankind, biblically
15 Meaningful work, for short?
16 Serve as a gobetween
17 Sunset shade (MT)
19 Churchill portrayer in 2017’s “Darkest Hour”
20 “Sixteen Tons” singer, often
21 Start of an objection (TX)
23 Props can build it up
25 Encumbered
26 Opposite of an exception
29 It’s played in the 5-Across, informally
32 It may be hard to follow
34 Booty spot? (PA)
36 All ears 38 “Documentary Now!” cable channel, originally
39 “... about up to here”
41 Bluff, say
42 Holst’s “The Planets,” for one
44 They’re the pits (AZ)
46 Congresscreated media giant 47 Dispensed, with “out”
48 Throw out
49 Evidence provider for some citations
51 Go to
53 Sole (UT) 57 Isolates, in a way
61 Withdraw
62 Run off … or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44and
53-Across fit their clues
64 Jamaican sprinter Thompsonherah with five Olympic golds
65 Bottle-___
66 Lumpy citrus
67 Did some campaign work
68 15-Across focus: Abbr.
69 After, before
DOWN
1 Consumer’s energy source, informally
2 Old music halls
3 Glue amounts, often
4 “Go on, do something funny”
5 “Sorry ___ sorry”
6 “Eastenders” broadcaster, with “the”
7 Extra: Abbr.
8 Like leis
9 Was laid up
10 Devil’s bargain, so to speak 11 Fruit liqueur from Italy
12 Hairy twin in a Bible story
13 In the mail
18 Dress nicely, with “up”
22 Unequaled, ever
24 Best New American Play award
26 Longtime CBS procedural
27 “Sounds exciting,” sincerely or sarcastically 28 Going both ways
30 Do something amazing for another
31 Gives ___ (attempts)
33 Attempts
35 Manhattan component
36 Sounds of realization
37 Actress Harper of “No Country for Old Men” 40 Their scores are on some coll. applications
43 Painful effort 45 Enjoyed something with relish, say
47 ___ milk
50 Poet who originated the phrase “For whom the bell tolls”
52 Clairvoyant’s claim
53 Ready, informally
54 Move, informally
55 “Careful where you open this” indicator
56 Squeezed (out)
58 A bird in flight, for Lufthansa
59 Birds whose eyes don’t move
60 Apt rhyme for “fit”
63 Some items in purses, for short