NY Times Puzzle No. 0823
ACROSS
1 Ballpark quartet
6 Reacts to
something gross
10 Greek god that sounds like 66-Across
14 Roll with the
punches
15 Chess piece with the secondhighest value
16 Mardi Gras
follower
17 Salad dressing
with chopped liver
20 CPR pro
21 M&M’s color
replaced by blue
22 New kid on the
block
23 “You betcha!”
27 They might be pitched by the Rockies
28 Sandwich with
wild rice
31 “Why, what an ___
am I!”: Hamlet 32 Logicians’
creations
33 Actress De La
Garza of “FBI”
35 Vessel for violets
36 “The Bare
Necessities” bear
38 Stud alternative
42 “Get Out” director
Jordan
44 Find a new
purpose for
45 End of a twoplayer Harlem Globetrotters play
48 Desserts with split
peas
51 “Top Chef” airer
53 Underlings forced to do unpleasant work
54 Word before job or
track
56 One channel that airs “NCAA March Madness,” with “TV”
57 Sort of
60 Egg dish with a
lemon turnover
64 ___ code
65
Timbuktu’s home
66 Zodiac sign that sounds like 10-Across
67
68
69
1
2
3
Where one needs GPS to find The Gap?
Opposite of sans
Some overly long Facebook posts
DOWN
___ Didrikson Zaharias, Olympic track-and-field gold medalist who went on to win 10 L.P.G.A. major championships
First lady’s husband
Square snack items
4 Binge-watching
units, for short
5
Ones with chiseled jawlines, often
6 W.N.B.A. star
Brittney
7
D.C. “Squad” member
8 End of a White
House address
9 Injure, as a knee
10 Naproxen brand
11 Saskatchewan’s
capital
12 Puts on the
books
13 Changing it converts “convert” from a verb to a noun
18 Jacobs of fashion
19 Off one’s game
24 Get into hot
water?
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25
Shanghainese, e.g.
26 Capital that was once part of Denmark
28 “The Challenge”
network
29 60 minuti
30
34
36
Chinese path
“Hello” singer
Source of some wax
37 “Ah, so it goes”
39 Adds insult to
injury
40 Drunk-skunk
connector
41 Governor Moore
of Maryland
43 Lyric poem
44 Alternative to
high-octane
45 Mentor of Anakin
and Luke
46 Cantankerous
47 Makes the grade
49 Source of a scandalous comment
50 “But wait —
there’s ___!”
52
The “V” in C.V.
55 Bombeck who said “Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time”
58 Editor’s “my
bad,” maybe
59 Gas company with
toy trucks
61 Sat ___ (GPS in
the U.K.)
62 Bullfight cheer
63 Important
stretch