Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 N.L. East team for which Tom Seaver pitched
5 “Down the ___!” (“Bottoms up!”)
10 Wild guess
14 Pop band with a palindromic name
15 Pouch of fluid in an E.R.
16 Site with “Place bid” buttons
17 When repeated, slogan of 1-Down
18 “I ___ what I said”
19 Tirade
20 Torus-shaped treat
22 Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle
23 ~ 24 Michelle ___, FIFA Female Player of the Century
25 Not just some
26 Treads on Keds
27 Plopped down
28 “Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand” (Duran Duran lyric)
29 Common airport greeting
30 Attempt to cool, in a way
31 Conditions
32 Aruba, Bonaire or Curaçao
34 Astronaut Jemison
35 Nonspecialist 38 Mars … or a marble
40 Old man’s old man
42 “Little” Wonder
44 Goes the distance
46 Mandated
47 Mama’s mama
48 ___ Apollo, Grammynominated singer
49 One of five in a Shakespeare play
52 Like items unveiled in a tech show, colloquially
54 Boxer who received a Liberty Medal for being a “champion of freedom”
57 Foreboding feeling
59 Wee one
60 List in an etiquette book
62 Fitness program originally called “Rumbacize”
63 Market launch, for short
64 Come clean
65 Cast out
66 First music artist to have a video with a billion YouTube views
67 Impoverished
Down
1 Miata maker
2 Kindle item
3 *Chophouse choice
4 One required by a 1629 law to wear two swords
5 “To Know ___ Is to Love ___” (1958 #1 song)
6 Mass recitation
7 *Skier’s support 8 Surefire
9 Driver’s license fig.
10 “No joke!”
11 *Miniature mitt
12 “Storage Wars” network
13 Memory units
21 *Article of summer footwear
23 *Launcher sometimes used during halftime at a sports event
30 Singer Bareilles
33 Canal written about by Twain and Melville
34 Studio with an iconic lion
36 Home of Acadia National Park
37 “I’m at your disposal”
39 One of the B’s in B&B
41 Chess pieces
43 Make a typo, say
45 Bit of advice from a C.P.A.
46 Slobbery tennis ball, e.g.
49 Woodworking tool
50 Main point
51 Office sub
53 With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have
54 Name shared by two wives of Henry VIII
55 Noisy
56 Words preceding “with my little eye”
58 $5 bill, slangily
61 Have bills due