NY Times Puzzle No. 1225
ACROSS
1 Device that might be confused with a router
6 Essayist Didion
10 Things in Easter
baskets
14 Honda luxury
brand
15 Taking ___
account
16 Money that’s
borrowed
17 1976 song by the Runaways with the lyric “Hello world, I’m your wild girl”
19 Not all
20 Spicy
21 Caviar, e.g.
22 Feeling tense
24 Not worth a ___
25 Walk in water up to one’s ankles, say 28 1996 Deana Carter hit with the lyric “My first taste of love, oh, bittersweet”
33 “Warts and all,” in
an ad
34 Mideast title
35 “American Dad!”
network
36 “Mad” run
37 Lugged around
39 Furry “Star Wars”
creature
42 Hawaii’s Mauna
___
44 Rip
45 Lesbian icon played by Lucy Lawless
46 1985 Prince hit with the lyric “And if it was warm she wouldn’t wear much more”
49 Race, as an engine
Frees (of)
27 ___ Lingus 50
51
Chicago trains
52 “Be that as it
may …”
54 ___ Lanka
55 In the style of, on
a menu
58
59
Lose energy
“I love this song!” … or a doubly apt description of 17-, 28- and 46-Across
63 Take a snooze
64 57-Down’s state
65 Inner ___ (goal of
meditation)
66 Is in the hole
67 Novice,
informally
68 Jazzy instruments
DOWN
1 Physicist Ernst
2 Dos x cuatro
3 Song for two
4 Slip up
5 It’s in your bones
6 Be in harmony
7 Musical artist
Yoko
8 Bank lobby sight
9 Completely insignificant person
10 Otherwise
11 “Your response is what I hoped you’d say”
12 Samwise ___, companion of Frodo Baggins
13 Villain’s
expression
18 “Sure thing!’
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23
Aquatic salamander
24 Cloth strips on
military uniforms
25 Ones involved in a 2023 Hollywood strike
26 Overdue debt
28
Unhappy
29 Airport org.
30 Reluctant, as an
investor
31 Acted too broadly
32 Large-horned
mountain goats 38 Appliances with
lint traps
40 Number of times Rose tells Jack she loves him, in “Titanic”
41 Kit ___ bar
43 Auto financing
figs.
46 Critic’s piece
47 Vitamin that contributes to hair and nail growth
48 Goodyear aircraft 49 In style once
more
53 Makes after
taxes
54 Wild guess
55 Hero in the
Trojan War
56 Wedding dress
material
57 City north of Des
Moines
60 Weeding tool
61 “So cu-u-ute!”
62 Vote in favor