Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Skunk’s
defense
5 High school
exam, for short 9 Reddish-purple
salad ingredient 13 Apple TV+
alternative 14 Shakespeare villain who says “I am not what I am” 15 Literature
Nobelist Alice 16 They’re long for
an underdog 17 Steffi with seven Wimbledon titles
18 Church choir
accompaniment 19 Temp job? 22 ___/her
pronouns 24 Prevailed 25 Necklace that can be made with kukui nuts 26 Prefix with liberal or conservative 27 Union job? 31 Ones potentially contacted in “first contact” 32 Vowel sound at the end of 15- and 26-Across 33 “La Vie en Rose” singer Edith
34 End of a hairy
limb
35 Watery or
papery 39 Yiddish
“Yikes!” 42 Have ambitions
(to)
44 Flex job?
47 It sells, it’s said 48 MSNBC
competitor 49 Chaired
50 Like the opening of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9
51 Dream job? 55 It travels at nearly 300 million meters per second 56 Apple Store
offerings 57 Story of one’s
life?
60 “Music is powered by ___”: Yo-Yo Ma 61 Olympian’s
sword
62 Fuzzy bit of car
décor 63 Literature Nobelist Morrison 64 Some lab
liquids
65 Like Scotch
Down
1 “Well, well,
well!”
2 Fizzling
firework 3 Encyclopedia volumes vis-àvis Wikipedia, e.g.
4 Deceptive trick 5 Old-fashioned message carriers 6 South Asian
wrap
7 Petri dish filler 8 Coming up
next
9 Small town 10 Driving force? 11 One might take off a few marks 12 Spanish for
“foolish” 15 What may be
heard in a herd 20 Exact lookalike 21 Slim and trim 22 Give this for
that
23 Lead-in to pad 28 Clear up, as ski
goggles 29 Works in a
theater
30 Likely to
offend, in brief 34 George Eliot and George Orwell, for two 36 Really prosper 37 ___ Man, one
of the Avengers 38 Wonkish sort 40 America’s Cup
vessels 41 Bottleful in un ristorante
42 It was once the world’s fourth-largest lake
43 Sch. system with campuses in Buffalo and Binghamton 44 Affirmative reply to “Understand?” 45 Earth’s most abundant element 46 Bullet with a
trail
47 Bad break in
bowling 52 Spiced tea 53 Scruff of the
neck
54 Many a cocktail
mixer 58 “Rocks” in a
cocktail
59 Big name in
online talks