The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Thing with pads and claws 4 Wanders

9 Rod, reel, tackle box, etc., for a fisher 13 Olympic Dream Team inits.

14 Place in a

mausoleum 16 ___ Tokarczuk, 2018 Literature Nobelist 17 Raiser of the

dead?

19 Musk who founded SpaceX 20 Brainstorms 21 Go by, as time 23 Young Scottish

lady

24 Financial aid for college that doesn’t need to be repaid 27 Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to aQ

29 Person with a

basket or cart 31 Mixed-breed dog that’s part spaniel 35 “Keen!” 36 “That’s ___ from me” (refusal) 37 Arthropod that can roll into a ball

40 Melted

chocolate, e.g. 41 Word before

mall or poker 43 Right to cross someone else’s land

45 Unlucky 48 Start of a newspaper article, in journalese 49 Busy person just before an election 51 Pledge drive

giveaway

55 Fix, as a shoe 56 Insects that

love wool 57 Appropriate initials of “stuff we all get” 59 Lures for magazine readers

62 Tiny bit 63 Minneapolis’s

twin city 64 Defining

period 65 Banana leftover 66 Cosmetician

Lauder 67 Singer Lana

Del ___

Down

1 Necessity for a

teacher

2 Carne ___ (grilled beef dish)

3 Home of Cardiff and Swansea 4 Yanks’ foes 5 Number said just before “Liftoff!”

6 ___ snail’s

pace

7 Edible mushroom with a honeycomb cap

8 Gets a whiff of 9 Flips out 10 Best Actress nominee for “Juno”

11 “A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away …” (“Star Wars” intro) 12 Tried to get

elected 15 “Erin go ___!” 18 Elective eye

surgery 22 Having tines 24 Big ___, nickname of baseball’s David Ortiz 25 Unstable chemical compound 26 Grand ___

National Park 28 Comes down a mountain, in a way 30 Rummage

(around) 31 Alternative to

Venmo

32 Like some

beer at a bar 33 Related to big business 34 Cry to a

toreador 38 Hay unit

39 For whom a product designer designs 42 Against the

law

44 Trending hashtag beginning in 2017

46 Dots on a

transit map 47 What lieutenants do to captains 50 “Trees” in underwater forests

52 It’s said to have the thickest fur of any mammal 53 When repeated, comforting words

54 Op-ed piece,

e.g.

56 Farm animal

that kicks 57 Sample a soda,

say 58 Tribulation 60 Back muscle,

for short 61 “What?,” in

Oaxaca

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