Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Hairstyle for Billy Preston
5 Pacific nation composed of 250+ islands
10 Fairy tale baddie
14 Brest milk
15 Cold War concern, for short
16 Spot for an ibex
17 Event with minutes that might last hours
20 What choristers may sing in
21 Persistently bothers
22 Shania Twain’s “___! I Feel Like a Woman!”
23 Bacillus shape
25 Left after taxes
26 Purchase inspired by a New Year’s resolution, often
33 Diamond parts that are rounded
35 Transport from Seattle to Bainbridge Island
36 Kerfuffle
37 Poet Dove
38 Hardly iffy
39 Avocado or olive products
40 Computing pioneer Lovelace
41 Made a peeling?
42 Sound, e.g.
43 Rubella, by another name
46 Suffix with “most,” redundantly
47 Item sometimes made with pikake flowers
48 Director DuVernay
51 Surname of father-andson Latin pop singers
56 Chair wheel
58 Ominous request from a teacher … or a hint to the first words (and following letters!) of 17-, 26- and 43-Across
60 Scandinavian name whose masculine equivalent ends in “-var”
61 Get a sense of
62 Show with booths
63 Stash belowdecks
64 “... unless I’m wrong”
65 Gorilla expert Fossey
Down
1 Song collection
2 Animals of a region
3 Future celebrity
4 Inventor Boykin who helped develop the pacemaker
5 Wunderkind
6 Prominent features on firefighter calendars
7 Played paper against scissors, e.g.
8 Food, in a food fight
9 Tech-obsessed sort, perhaps
10 Largish chamber groups
11 Cheshire cat’s signature feature
12 Tirade
13 They run when they’re broken
18 Standards
19 Rock powder used as an abrasive
24 Warp
27 Vote of support
28 Hockey game interruption, maybe
29 Like some suites
30 Waves from the curb, say
31 Duty-free?
32 Blog entry
33 Crow
34 Gofer
38 Major pilgrimage destination in Spain
39 Number aptly found in “loner”
41 So last year
42 ___ crest (part of the pelvis)
44 Granny, in the South
45 It’s meant to be kept
49 Scooter brand whose name means “wasp”
50 Crime in insurance investigations
51 Goddess sister of Nephthys
52 Courteous chap
53 Kind of block
54 Way off
55 Knock for a loop
57 “Ethan Frome” vehicle 59 Literally, “I”