NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Composer of the piano piece played in the “Tom and Jerry” short “The Cat Concerto”
6 Fuse 10 Sugarcoated, in a way
14 Dancing like a ballerina 15 “Sounds good!” 16 First line on a form, often
17 Par ___ (by airmail, in French)
18 Word after lo or chow
19 Phaser setting 20 Sports bar purchases? 23 Summer setting in Mass.
24 Actor Kingsley 25 Guy in a crew 28 Do a cobbler’s job on
30 Like a kitten cuddling with a puppy
32 Before, in poetry
33 Sports bar purchases? 36 Recipient of the inaugural A.T.P. Player of the Year award 39 “Chandelier” singer
40 Has a student loan, say
41 Sports bar purchases? 46 Assistance 47 Every which way
48 Relents
52 Gets the hair just right, say 54 “Better Call Saul” network 55 Spanish article 56 Sports bar purchases? 60 Recite the rosary, e.g. 62 Currency of Portugal 63 Occupied, as a desk
64 Free speech org.
65 Hair removal brand
66 Cut down to size
67 “Golf is a good ___ spoiled” 68 Fix because of flatness, say 69 Some are for passing
DOWN
1 Apt shoe for a bread maker? 2 What the aliens do in “The War of the Worlds” 3 Work assignments 4 ___ suit
5 Not ridiculous, as an argument 6 Persons who identify as female, in an alternative spelling 7 Scraped together, with “out” 8 Hideout
9 Tang, for one 10 App with “Stories,” informally
11 Bee’s knees 12 Outback bird 13 Hideout
21 In view
22 Brokers’ charges 26 Fotografía, por ejemplo
27 Loch ___
29 Abbr. above “0” 30 Quickly form a friendship (with)
31 Home of the Sundance Film Festival 34 Apropos of 35 Zoom meeting leader 36 Lickety-split 37 Ruckus
38 Wanted for nothing 42 Daddy, in Spanish 43 “Whew!
That was exhausting!” 44 Muppet who speaks in a falsetto 45 Withdrawal to avoid a conflict of interest 49 Oman’s ruler, e.g.
50 Agita
51 Presses Ctrl-v onapc
53 Symbol of poison on a warning label 54 Treasure
57 Feast with poi 58 Blarney Stone locale
59 Dad, in Chinese 60 Fido’s foot 61 Record label that released the first 45 r.p.m. single (1949)