The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Take pregame shots? 10 “The Metamorphosis”
protagonist
15 Person who will do anything
for you, in modern slang 16 “You caught me”
17 Cold, caramel-colored
concoction
18 Sephora product
19 Literary utopia
20 Bridge, e.g.
22 Locale of an early 20thcentury gold rush 24 “Homeland” home, in brief 25 Phisher’s “catch,” for short 26 ___ check
29 Letter between Oscar and
Quebec
31 Davis who said “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept”
33 With it
35 Things not allowed in New
York’s Central Park 37 Birthplace of Ivan Turgenev 38 Babbled
39 Singer Rita
40 Character who can be played in every installment of 26Down
41 Opening settings for “The Canterbury Tales” and “Treasure Island”
42 It’s elementary
43 Ordered from Grubhub, say 44 Show-offy kind of push-up 46 “What’s the ___?”
48 Abbr. in an office address 49 Tampon alternative 50 Contents of some chats, in
brief
52 Name derived from the Latin
for “to be born”
54 Smirnoff Ice, e.g. 56 Keynotes, e.g.
60 Ancestry
61 Firewall target
64 Mexican sandwich
65 Leave space for someone
running late, say
66 “See what I’m sayin’?” 67 2004 comedy written
by Tina Fey
DOWN
1 Magician’s favorite
cereal?
2 Villa ___ de la Vera Cruz
(historic city name)
3 Mideast port
4 Kia Rio, e.g.
5 Not close
6 Hospital specialty
7 Big inits. in home security 8 Hoppin’, in modern lingo
9 Something you might play for 10 Suppresses
11 Bunches
12 It goes for a short run 13 “Can’t argue that” 14 Something released while
skydiving
21 Mental sparks
23 Home of the World Showcase 26 Nintendo offering with more
than 10 installments 27 “Lemme see!”
28 Del Monte or Green Giant
product
30 Elder brother of Moses 32 Affliction of Benjamin
Franklin
34 “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
detective Diaz
36 Dish that might come with a
flavor packet
40 Team game played in the
dark
42 Snowballs, in a snowball fight 45 Toolshed tool
47 Warm, in a way
51 Jerk
53 Indian drink made from
yogurt
55 Italian number that’s also a
man’s name
57 Piece of cake? 58 Bibliographic abbr.
59 Where scenes are made 62 Actor Daniel ___ Kim 63 Cavaliers’ sch.