Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Cubans are full of it
4 Order in New Orleans
9 Sexology subject
14 Dish seen around the world?
15 Go all in, in poker lingo
16 Sam who directed 2022’s “Doctor Strange” sequel
17 World’s oldest golf tournament, familiarly
19 Animal in the same family as the wolverine
20 Vexed
21 Airer of “Tiny Desk” concerts
22 ___ Johnson a.k.a. The Rock
23 One of the Obamas
25 “Great ___!”
27 “Yeah, right!,” e.g.
28 Ecstasy
32 Collar feature, perhaps
35 “Fingers crossed”
36 Sound at the doctor’s office
37 Today, in Toledo
39 Abbr. meaning “in particular”
40 One of “them”
41 After-dinner drink made with crème de menthe
44 Letter-shaped piece of piping
46 Trying to be quiet, in a way
47 Whiz
48 Von Trapp girl who sang about being 16
49 Baby carrier
52 Deal
55 Tobiko or ikura, at a Japanese restaurant
57 Part of Florida
59 Shinto gate
60 Temporary spot to do business … or a hint to answering 17-, 35- and 41-Across
62 “Sorry, ask someone else”
63 Rest area on a hike
64 Put the food away
65 Set of flippers?
66 Dispense
67 Finishing touch, so to speak
Down
1 Centers
2 Styles for Questlove and Jon Batiste
3 Mother on “Schitt’s Creek”
4 Inflation spec
5 “You just got burned!”
6 He independently discovered the same comet as Hale
7 Superintend
8 Craving
9 Something a teen usually experiences
10 Straddled
11 Feel for
12 Something interpreted from a bird’s behavior, in the ancient Greek practice of ornithomancy
13 Word before iron or chain
18 Model Y maker
22 Dimwits
24 Gaiety
26 Shaman, at times
29 Teeming
30 Privy to
31 Dry-___ beef
32 Roderigo’s killer, in Shakespeare
33 “Nuts!”
34 “What’s ___?”
35 What-if propositions, informally
38 Chose
42 Keeping isolated
43 Sushi order with a saltysweet sauce
45 Has reservations about?
47 Imitation
50 ___ center
51 Home of Nijo Castle, built by the Tokugawa shogunate
52 Bickering
53 2017 Pixar film set in the Land of the Dead
54 Beginning of some blended juice flavors
56 Stone with silica
58 Blow out
60 Tour group, for short
61 Kind of project