Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
No. 0312
Across
1 Discontinue 5 ___ cake (dessert with a liquid chocolate core) 9 Skewered meat
dish
14 Wander 15 "Victory is
mine!"
16 Reply to
"Grazie"
17 A ??
19 Feeling the need to scratch
20 Blanc who was known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices"
21 Tries not to be
found
22 "Hello," in
Mandarin 23 Categorize 25 Give lip to 26 Where visitors take photos pretending to hold up a landmark
28 Not playing any songs, as a radio station 31 Rocker Lavigne
34 Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer 36 Never Have I ___ (party game) 37 Shakespearean
"Tsk!"
38 B ??
41 X – III
42 Berry rich in antioxidants (and vowels) 44 Accessory that may denote military rank 45 Deep chasm 47 Smallest unit of purchasing power, in an idiom
49 Start of a spell 51 Liquid-ate? 52 "You can say
that again!" 56 High-end
Honda 58 Pancakes sometimes served with caviar
61 Apt anagram of
"yea"
62 Put forward 63 B ??
65 Speak one's
mind 66 Cereal crop 67 Gave the goahead 68 Quick kisses 69 Occasion for blowing out candles, informally 70 Dudes
Down
1 Field of play? 2 Double Dutch
equipment 3 Racetrack
shapes 4 Pay-___-view 5 City ___ (place for a population sign)
6 Wowed 7 Botanical
climber
8 Flik and Dot, in
"A Bug's Life" 9 Kind of cord or
column 10 Skilled
performer
11 E ?? 12 Persian
honorific 13 Fluctuate wildly 18 Skydiving or a ride on a roller coaster
24 Big name in
nail polish 25 Whole host 27 Corroded 28 "Hi," in Lanai 29 Lanai neckwear 30 Mother of Kim, Kylie and Kourtney
31 A ways away 32 The "V" of V.P. 33 Follow a composer's notation ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle 35 Show
stoppers? 39 "Winning ___
everything" 40 Fictional land
ruled by Aslan 43 Winter Olympics facility 46 Naughty
48 Fills with
delight 50 Anonymous creator of a painting sold at auction that subsequently shredded itself
53 A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity 54 "Sheesh!" 55 Tends to an overgrown garden
56 Each
57 Make do 58 Amorphous
shape 59 Hamperful 60 Smallest
bit
64 Daily record