NY Times Puzzle No. 0129
ACROSS
1 Completely
enthralled
5 Cry at the end of
the workweek
9 Police dept.
alerts
13 Purple smoothie
fruit
14 Used a loom
15 “Don’t ___ the
small stuff”
16 *Amorous
cartoon skunk
18 Towel material
19 Pioneering journalist ___ B. Wells
20 Cupid’s Greek
counterpart
21 Central position
22 Home project
inits.
23 Boxing ruling, for
short
24 [I’m cracking up
as I type this!]
25 Historic period
27 Secret supply
29 *Impartial court proceeding guaranteed by the Constitution
32 Rocket launch
site
34 Family guy
35 Ice cream brand
36 What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed
39 Poetic tributes
41 Phillipa of
“Hamilton”
42 “Gnarly!”
43 *”Just a sec!”
46 Their are too in
this clue
50 Source of
hardwood
51 Bud
52 Musical set in Oz,
with “The”
54
55
Regret
Relating to the bottom layer
57 Numbers game
58 And so on:
Abbr.
59 Zsa Zsa or Eva of old Hollywood
60 *Short-lived
store event
62 Two-way, as
doors
63
Hockey feint
64 Something
people trip on
65 Hershey toffee
bar
66
Take five
67 “What fun!”
DOWN
1 Dangerous (and thrilling!) part of a river, to canoeists
2 Nailed the exam
3 Orange smoothie
fruit
4 50-50, e.g.
5 Bounce one’s booty on the dance floor
6 Disappear like
magic
7 St. ___ (skin care
brand)
8 Hardly any
9 Wonderstruck
10 Summer meteor
shower
11 *Platter used to
carry glassware
12 Pig’s place
15
It helps a clown stand tall
PUZZLE BY GARRETT CHALFIN AND ANDREW KINGSLEY
17 “___ Weapon”
(buddy cop film)
21 Sauron’s realm in “The Lord of the Rings”
24 “A ___ ought to have a good memory”: Quintilian
26 Gore and Green,
for two
28 Involuntary muscle contraction
30 Bonus
31 Thin, as a voice
33 Dreary
36 Game that involves covering one’s eyes
37 Christmas
38 Bread at a seder
39 Winning
tic-tac-toe line
40 *Repository of
genetic material
44 Images that give the illusion of movement
45 Fine-tunes
47 What ministers
do
48 Extend beyond
49
Withdraw formally
53 Map enlargement
56 ___ Patch Kids
(gummy candy)
57 Bauhaus artist
Paul
59 Dog tag wearers,
in brief
60 First president to appear on television, familiarly
61 Lumberjack’s
tool