The New York Times Crossword

No. 1012

ACROSS

1 Dip for chips

6 Epitome of redness

10 ___ Jima (1945 battle site)

13 The first one was sent in

1971

14 Shape for an eyebrow or

rainbow

15 Captivated

17 Game that has only a single

round

20 Connections

21 Bay Area airport code

22 Not get take-out

23 Single item seemingly always found at the bottom of a McDonald’s bag

27 Sales at concerts or games, informally

28 Region traveled by 63-Across

29 Nile biter

31 “Kill Bill” actress Lucy

32 One of more than 115 on a table

36 Dinghy or dory

37 Portmanteau coinage

describing this puzzle’s theme

40 Club charges

41 Like some aprons or reputations

42 Info for an airport limo driver

43 NaOH, familiarly

44 Cartoon collectibles

47 Hot drink at a ski resort

49 Entrance divided in half

horizontally

54 Counter-Strike or League of Legends

56 “Thanks, but I’m good”

57 Regret

58 Board game played on a big hexagram 62 Map with elevation lines, in brief

63 Explorer Marco

64 Informal goodbye

65 For each

66 Old dagger

67 Tip of a shoelace

DOWN

1 Font flourish

2 Egyptian king of the gods

3 Scottish girls

4 “___ boom bah!”

5 “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” boxer

6 Canada’s oldest national park

7 Cause for a correction

8 Prefix with tourism

9 A bad joke might go over with one

10 “Goodnight, ___” (classic song)

11 Decisive defeat

12 Professional you might need to see?

16 Drill sergeant’s shout

18 Volcanic pollutant

19 Rock’s ___ Bizkit

24 Nobelist Bohr with a

32

Across named for him 25 San Diego’s state, informally

26 One-named Greek New Age

musician

30 Obsessive fan, in slang

33 Etail site for handmade goods

34 Doled (out)

35 Most common answer in New York Times crosswords (more than 6% of all puzzles)

36 ___ one’s time (waited) 37 Where model workers can be

found?

38 Weapon in the original Clue

39 Support for a PC

40 Pick up on

43 U-shaped stringed instrument

45 World’s largest cosmetics

company

46 Listing in a footnote

48 Name on a building wing,

perhaps

50 “I give!”

51 Lake on 25-Down’s border

52 Revolutionary Guevara

53 Button at a bowling alley

55 768 of them make a gal.

59 Long, long time

60 Many an I.R.S. employee

61 Container with a pump