Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Like a world in which objective facts are less important than appeals to emotion and personal belief 10 Tony-winning choreographer for “Movin’ Out” 15 Language in which plural adjectives end in -aj 16 Crude craft 17 Paleolith, e.g. 18 “That ’70s
Show” role 19 Stiffens 20 Candy in a
straw
22 Shot that determines who gets to break, in billiards 23 “What was I
thinking?!” 25 Likes often
feed it 26 Fu-___ (legendary Chinese sage) 27 Alt.
29 City that inspired a palace in “Aladdin” 31 Ration 32 Capital of
Nigeria
35 ___ law, principle stating that computer processing power doubles every 18 months 37 Comment that might follow “I used to be a banker until I lost interest” 40 Philosopher Weil who said “All sins are attempts to fill voids” 41 “Breaking Bad”
sidekick 42 “Explore beyond limits” sloganeer 43 Kind of chop 45 Tony ___, early Macy’s Day Parade balloon designer 49 Piano piece 50 State whose name means “snowcovered”: Abbr. 51 Byrnes of “77
Sunset Strip” 54 Part of a fault
line?
55 “This looks like the end for me!” 58 Ole Miss,
with “the” 60 Signal silently 61 2016 Emmy-winning lead actor for “Mr. Robot” 63 Skirt 64 Common fossil in Paleozoic rocks 65 Musical mark meaning “repeat” 66 Studmuffin
Down
1 Kitchen
implement 2 Bony
3 Tosspot
4 Till
compartment 5 Having no way
to escape 6 More familiar name for Enrico Rizzo in an Oscar-winning film 7 Game whose direction of play can shift from clockwise to counterclockwise
8 The Grand Prix used to have one
9 Like Swiss vis-à-vis other cheeses
10 City that’s home to the most Michelin three-star restaurants 11 Rushes 12 Sound,
informally 13 Didn’t fall in
line 14 Stand-ins 21 Annual ESPN broadcast since 1995 24 Certain
pilgrim
28 Fog, e.g.
30 Pot
31 Styles 33 Trendy hairstyle
for men 34 Crooked 36 Turn-___ 37 “Good going!” 38 Lowest one in
the pack
39 TV opening? 40 ___ Valley, setting for “Of Mice and Men” 44 Turns inside
out
46 Aviator Earhart 47 Subleases 48 Leakage
preventer 50 Refrain from 52 Without cracking a smile, say 53 Disband, to
Brits
56 Come by
57 Like $10 gold
eagle coins 59 Object of the search by the Three Wise Men 62 Kool-Aid, e.g.