The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 About 85%-90% of Muslims,
globally [1st of 7]
6 *shrug*
9 Weight
13 Conjecture’s lack
14 Reddit Q&A session 15 Jacqueline du Pré’s
instrument
16 Scottish cattle breed 17 Hollywood’s Ricardo or Paolo
[2nd of 7]
19 Go here and there
21 Spiky fruits with a noxious
odor
22 Sch. in Troy, N.Y.
24 Place for garage sale receipts 26 French for “You are beautiful!”
[3rd of 7]
28 Requests kibble, say
32 End result
33 Rocky Mountain National Park
sight
35 About 10%-15% of Muslims,
globally
36 Flutter, as eyelashes 37 “Yippee for us!” [4th of 7] 40 English suffix equivalent to
Spanish’s -ando and -iendo 41 Word in a traditional New
Year’s Eve song
43 Bother and bother
44 People for whom two states
are named
46 Goal of a bedtime story
reading
48 Digital confrontations? [5th of
7]
50 ___ Bedingfield, pop star with the hits “Unwritten” and “Pocketful of Sunshine” 52 This, that or whichever 53 Looked up to 56 “Come ___!”
58 One of Robin Hood’s Merry
Men [6th of 7]
60 Government program heads,
informally
64 Come from behind
65 Heaven knows where, for short 66 Brings home
67 Symbols of wisdom
68 Suffer the consequences 69 One with horns [7th of 7]
DOWN
1 Place to unplug 2 Archaeologist’s find
3 Holiday quaff
4 Give sustenance
5 In that case
6 Warm-blooded sort
7 Punk subculture
8 Like some drills and vacuums 9 Scary roller coaster twists 10 Actor Idris
11 Cousin of a tres leches cake 12 Oodles
15 Ricochet
18 Setting for a “Rubber Duckie”
singalong
20 Winning blackjack combo 22 “Queen of Drag” with 12
Emmys 23 Mortar’s partner in food prep
and chemistry
25 Some December lawn
decorations
26 Oom-pah-pah boomers 27 Stick for a 15-Across player 29 Buckeye
30 Like a snow globe scene 31 Major ordeals
34 “Big Little Lies” actress Nicole 38 Load of information all at
once
39 What Ctrl+T might open 42 “Nope,” “I’m innocent” and
“Huh-uh”
45 Subject of the 2008 documentary “The Black Candle”
47 Deflect, as an insult or a
sword
49 “Er … I suppose that works” 51 Lunar New Year
53 Natural hairstyle
54 Tie
55 Structure historically found by
a river
57 Frosts
59 Surveillance org.
61 Word with fine or folk 62 Modern vaccine base 63 Application info, often