NY Times Puzzle No. 1128
ACROSS
1 Be agitated
5 Nursery display
10 California city whose name sounds like a surprised twoword greeting
14 Film pooch
15 Supermarket checkout choices
16 Oaf
17 The Man in Black
19 Comedy bits
20 Difficult to differentiate
21 Decidedly not lowbrow
22 Light blue
23 Tropical squawker
24 ___ milk
25 Inits. before some presidents’ names
26 GPS calculation, for short
27 Candies that make your mouth burn
29 Baked dish often served with tomato sauce
30 Merchant
33 Reveals to, as a secret
35 “We gave it a shot”
37 “I met her in a club down in old ___” (“Lola” lyric)
38 Excoriates
42 Sarge, e.g.
46 Feel the burn
47 Performance with twirling torches
49 Santa ___
50 Top suit
51 Cable TV’s Nat ___
52 Like many monks
54 ___ milk
56 Oaf
57 Popular nasal spray
58 Done: Fr.
59 17-Across hit … or a hint to four connected answers in this puzzle
61 Dark blue
62 Threw in a chip, say
63 Fusses
64 On deck
65 Common wizard feature
66 What keeps things in focus?
DOWN
1 Place that’s orange on a Monopoly board
2 “Missed your
chance!”
3 Fair
4 Chocolatier of children’s literature
5 Cool-looking, in slang
6 The house of Felipe VI?
7 Hot, hot, hot!
8 Gives a makeover
9 Visibly aghast
10 First saint of the Russian Orthodox Church
11 With 40-Down, Oscar-nominated player of 17-Across
12 Chilean dictator Pinochet 13 Moralizer’s comment 18 Inexperienced 27 Agitator seeking radical change 28 Big name in tires 29 National park NE of Las Vegas
31 Zap, in a way 32 Clockmaker ___ Terry
34 “Ray Donovan” channel, briefly
36 Bachelor contingent at a cotillion
38 Nascar enthusiast, e.g.
39 Dessert drink made with frozen grapes
40 See 11-Down
41 College town WSW of Albany
43 Hack job?
44 Club that few golfers carry
45 Theme in “Hamlet”
48 Cantankerous sort
52 Org. for W.W. II Hurricane pilots
53 Slaughterhouse scraps
55 It goes with the flow
56 Cantankerous sort
60 Curious