The New York Times Crossword

No. 0804

ACROSS

1 Supporting timber in home construction

6 Jazz genre

11 Popular sandwich, for short 14 Breathing problem for a sleeper

15 Solo

16 Gardening tool

17 2016 live- action Disney film with an animated title character

19 Yellow ball in pool

20 Ambient musician Brian 21 1982 film named after a

computer program

22 Handle the food for, as a party 24 Noggin

25 So- called “City of a Thousand

Minarets”

27 Where John Milton and John

Oliver studied at Cambridge 32 Bumpkin

33 Corrida cry

34 Where clothing may come

apart

36 Prefix with - mester

37 Abandon … or two words often seen next to the starts of 17-, 27-, 47and 60- Across

41 Greenpeace, e. g., for short 42 Dame of fame

44 Golfer Michelle

45 Was meddlesome

47 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel about a wealth- obsessed farm family

51 “The gymnasium of the mind,” per Pascal

52 Troubles

53 Actress Bara of 1917’ s “Cleopatra” 55 Actress Polo of TV’s “The Fosters”

56 Ticked off

59 Word after electric or elevator 60 Notorious cinematic flop of

1980

64 “My man”

65 Desi of old TV

66 Claw

67 “Amen!”

68 A, B or C, or first, second or

third

69 Was out DOWN 1 Mocking remark

2 U. S. ___

3 Take ___ account

4 “Now do you believe me?” 5 Suggests, flavorwise

6 Certain nobles

7 Gusto

8 Get stuck, with “down” 9 Vocalist heard on the Beatles’ “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”

10 Miniature golf course freebie 11 Suitable for framing? 12 Uneaten part of an entree, maybe

13 Catcall

18 “Confound it!” 23 Bellicose deity

24 Paragraph in a playbill, maybe 25 What a fountain may provide 26 Supermodel Wek

27 Suffix meaning “cell”

28 Big finish?

29 Heavyweight at a zoo 30 Subdivision in group theory 31 Zealous

35 À la ___

38 Symbols of wisdom 39 Reformer Jacob who wrote “How the Other Half Lives” 40 Certain Olympic athletes since 1900

43 Condition that Adderall may be prescribed for, in brief

46 Dorm leaders, in brief 48 Enemy of Popeye

49 Pluck, as eyebrow hairs 50 Bereft, old- style

53 Frozen dessert chain

54 Cocky character in a fable 55 Infomercial, e. g.

56 Like every secretary of state

until 1997

57 On

58 Job for a body shop

61 Zig when one should zag, say 62 Get ___ on ( ace)

63 Lass