The New York Times Crossword
1 Big name in artificial
intelligence
4 Elbow
8 Women’s links org.
12 Luau dish
13 “The Great” pope between
Sixtus III and Hilarius
14 “The Walking Dead” actress
Lauren
15 Neil deGrasse Tyson, for one 18 Handwriting on a
prescription, perhaps 19 Satanic
20 The Beatles’ “___ a Woman” 21 One-named Greek-born
soft-rock musician 24 Diamonds, in slang
27 Set up a couple on a blind
date, say
30 Wine label word
33 Large number
34 Dungeons & Dragons and
Diablo, in brief
35 “Drag Race” host
37 One way to administer
fluids, for short
39 Voting against
40 Shimmery mineral
42 Golden Bears’ sch.
43 Kept moving quickly
47 Coast Guard rank: Abbr. 48 Poem that begins “Once upon a midnight dreary,” with “The”
49 Best guesses as to “when,”
in brief
53 Cat’s sound of selfrelaxation
55 John who wrote “How Does a Poem Mean?”
57 “Stay focused”... or a
ACROSS
punny description of the placement of this puzzle’s circled letters
61 Have the wheel
62 Word after baking or cream 63 Beer barrel
64 Casino figures
65 Spent some time in a cellar,
say
66 New Orleans-to-Tampa dir.
DOWN
1 “No bid from me”
2 “The Garden of Earthly
Delights” painter
3 Anglican bishop’s headwear 4 Implement that might be
pulled by a tractor
5 Risky email button to hit
accidentally
6 “So ni-i-ice!”
7 Like some home improvement projects, in brief
8 Collections of points in
math
9 Damning verbal attack 10 Filling at a filling station 11 Hill worker
14 Honda model since 1972 16 Coarse file 17 Dangerous email button to
hit accidentally
22 Vote for 23 Never-before-seen
25 Big name in insurance 26 Famed Ford flop
28 The Tigers of the S.E.C. 29 Address on a business card 30 Mania
31 Sentence that’s really two
sentences
32 Fully informed
36 Target
37 Words of resignation 38 Vincent ___ Gogh
40 Dallas baller
41 Réunion, par exemple 44 What a spell checker’s red
squiggly line indicates 45 “Fiddlesticks!”
46 First, second or reverse 50 Tot’s transport 51 Woodworking tools 52 Lengthy attack
54 A multitool has a lot of them 56 Tablet debut of 2010 57 That, in Tegucigalpa
58 Since Jan. 1
59 Bag-checking org. 60 Harley-Davidson, on the
N.Y.S.E.