NY Times Puzzle No. 0131

ACROSS

1 Seize

6 Alternative to “swipe” for a credit card

9 Pizazz

14 Word with life or

screen

15 One of the

Manning brothers

16 Measurement on 39 First murder

an electric meter victim

17 Fly the coop Common wine

barrel material

19 Spanish

restaurant fare

20 Prepared to fight

Goliath?

22 Scheming

23 Like the numerals

1, 2 and 3

27 Dutch beer named

for a river

31 ___-chic

33 “I’m ___ Boat” (Lonely Island song) 34 Practiced changing one’s costume by the clock?

36 The Cowboys and Cowgirls of the N.C.A.A.

37 Private university

of North Carolina

38 Leader who was the author of “On Protracted War”

40

41 Invested on

Broadway, say?

45 Article in Le

Monde

46 Taking off

47 Earmarks

48 Matchbox, e.g.

50 NBC staple since

1975, in brief

51 Betrayed Paddington? … or what 20-, 34- and 41-Across did in this puzzle

58

61

Arm bones

Something you shouldn’t take lying down?

62 Philly school

63

In which the pinky and thumb pointing out represents Y, in brief

64 Like a cemetery at

night, maybe

65 ___ Popovich, longtime coach for the Spurs

66 Turndowns

67 Latin dance

DOWN

1 It’s written as “C.C.C.P.” in Cyrillic

2

Japanese rice wine

3 Pupil’s place

4 Chris formerly of

50-Across

5 Gave positive

reinforcement

6 Old presidential

nickname

7 Penne ___ vodka

8 Spot from which to say “bon voyage”

9 Protruding feature

on a cliff

10 Tennis star Naomi

11 Hiker’s aid

12 Sports org. with an annual championship on the weekend before Memorial Day

13 “___ So Shy” (1980 Pointer Sisters hit)

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18

21

24

Actress Reese of “Touched by an Angel”

Waikiki locale

Owie

25 Ad section in a

newspaper, maybe

26 Seals, in a way

27

Dined at a restaurant

28 City in which to see “Il Cenacolo” (“The Last Supper”)

29

Motown legend Robinson 30 Perfect score,

often

31 Prominent parts

of toucans

32 Plains tribe

35 Sonoma and

Yukon

39 Leatherworker’s

tool

41 Extra-loud, as a

loudspeaker

42 Prefix with

nautical

43 Fine partner? 49 Keeping in the

loop, in a way

50 Unloads, so to

speak

52 Bridge

53 Meh

54 La ___ Tar Pits

55 Rank associated with tea and sandwiches?

56 Honeybees’ genus

57 Large flightless

bird

58 Toupee, slangily

59 Borrower’s concern, for short Poor grade

44 Audience for which a G-rated film is appropriate 60