NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

01/25/2024

ACROSS

1 Queue before Q 5 Org. with a top 10 list

8 Some fluffy slippers

12 “The Good Dinosaur” dinosaur 13 Predators whose females are the main hunters 15 Stand-out performance? 16 Water under the drawbridge 17 High up

18 Nov. or Dec. event for a Sagittarius 19 Transport, in a way

20 Put in a box

22 It’s a ball

23 Fitting

24 Irrigation structure 25 Messenger ___ 26 Teeny

27 Reefer and clipper

29 Scarf down

31 Group known for playing mind games

33 See 62-Down 34 Not cool

36 “Knives Out” director Johnson

37 Like a custard 38 Farmer’s market booth

39 Kitchen cabinet climbers

40 People don’t see through them

43 Duo with the 2011 #1 hit “Party Rock Anthem”

46 Cook again in oil

50 Cooks, as some kernels

53 Brown in strips 55 Lead-in to season

56 “Bet you can’t do better!” 58 2010 health law, in brief

59 Hard walk

61 Fanatical

62 Latin love

63 Sludge

64 Bird that flies with its neck outstretched 65 “Good as ___” (Lizzo hit)

66 Wild catch? 67 Substitute for “subs”

68 “Golly!”

DOWN

1 Criticize harshly 2 Squeeze together? 3 *What iodine might do

4 Squirt 5 *Expresses regret about

6 Bit of skiwear

7 *Blank, e.g., in Scrabble

8 Kind of port 9 With 47Down, fail spectacularly ... or what the answers to the starred clues do?

10 Gives an angry look 11 Protein-rich crop 13 TV newswoman Spencer

14 Daze

20 Bank offerings, in brief 21 Receptionist turned administrator on “The Office” 28 Workplace inequity 30 Moments of discovery

32 This might get the word out 34 Wash. setting

35 Layer on a roll 41 Booty

42 Taylor Swift’s record-setting ___ Tour 43 Something to work on 44 Something to look into 45 *Liberated

47 See 9-Down 48 Maker of Max Throat Care drops

49 Adverb for an anniversary

51 Delivery site

52 *Place to be pampered

53 *X, to a sorority sister 54 Camouflages 57 Way up on a mountain

60 Middle C, e.g. 62 With 33-Across,

deep-sea catch