Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The New York Times crossword puzzle

- Ella Dershowitz

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

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