NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Blackthorn
5 Motion to strike?
9 Noted figure in genetic research 14 Affectionate gesture that might get some blowback? 15 Govt. workplace overseer 16 Provide things for
17 Where students may be plotting 19 Saint ____
(West Indies nation) 20 Customer service state? 21 Enter on tiptoe 23 Focal point of ancient Athens 24 Take exception to
26 Power tool used for mosaics 28 Early voting site 32 They’re often “baked in” to podcasts 35 Tenants’ collective protest
36 Fossil fuel alternative
37 Congratulations 39 Sidewalk shader 40 Reef builder
41 Creator of the nine circles of Hell
44 Film character who takes “the red pill”
45 Get a little punchy?
46 Comes (from)
48 Site of the Wailing Wall 50 Actress Thompson 54 Hidden
57 “The Wizard of Oz” prop
58 Bat mitzvah figure
59 Common directive in 17-Across … or what to do with five squares in this puzzle 62 Anyone who’s “in” this is out 63 County in New York, Ohio or Pennsylvania 64 Phrase that’s a real gamechanger? 65 Impede
66 Expert service provider? 67 Disney queen
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1 Nation that switched from right- to lefthand traffic in 2009
2 Preceder of the Chen dynasty 3 Prefix meaning “correct” 4 Strongly urge 5 Successfully pitched
6 Body image focus group? 7 Sounds of realization 8 Low-pitched woodwind 9 Actress Mirren 10 Problem that may have several factors
11 Good thing to be in
12 Numeral on some sundials 13 60 minutes, for one
18 L’oréal competitor 22 Unfamiliar 24 Toon with the catchphrase “You eediot!” 25 Body shop fig. 27 “Aux innocents ___ mains pleines” (“Fortune favors fools”) 29 Giant in chemicals manufacturing 30 Decline
31 2012 film centered around a hostage crisis 32 Kindergarten series
33 Decline
34 Singer Bareilles 36 Honeybun
38 Unknown quantity in a 10Down 39 Off-roader, in brief
41 Great salt lake 42 Add up to
43 Zero
46 Dr. based out of Compton, Calif. 47 Snap with a stick, maybe
49 Alpine athlete 51 Bad-tempered expression 52 Wraparound garments 53 Rabbit ears, e.g. 54 Standing on the street
55 Sport with a stick
56 Published remembrance, for short 57 Divided by, in fractions 60 Middle-earth menace
61 What an impostor tries to sell