The New York Times Crossword
No. 0831
ACROSS
1 Follower of November
6 Main character in a Verne novel 10 Preserves, maybe
13 Instant ___
14 Actress Lena of “Chocolat” 15 Neural conductor
17 2009 fantasy rom-com starring
Zac Efron
18 “Need a hand here!”
19 What the dish congee is made
from
20 Food item that may be candied 21 Strongly implied
24 “Caught ya!”
25 Hang loose?
26 Former N.B.A. star who has unofficially served as a peace ambassador with North Korea 28 “___ all mad here”: Cheshire
cat
31 “Understood”
33 Oodles
34 Made cuts to, maybe
38 Made cuts to
42 Base of an encipherment 43 Shade that might be made in
the shade?
44 Fall in the winter
45 Holds on to
49 Site for artisans
50 Chips in England
53 Casual negatives
55 Seeming eternity
56 Desert feline
58 Where to find canines 61 Undergarment shade
63 Ewe got this!
64 Kerfuffle
66 Worker’s cry of relief
67 Any of three major-league
brothers
68 The first “O” of O/O 69 Word with rack or trick 70 Antiquity
71 Scumlike
DOWN
1 Authorize
2 Long, long yarn
3 Kind of session for a
procrastinator
4 “What ___ missing?” 5 Vacation time, informally
6 Zero chance of a good result 7 Popular store chain with a
green, red and orange logo 8 2002 film that earned Eminem
two MTV Movie Awards
9 Out of jail early, perhaps 10 Preserves preserver 11 Fundamental math assumption 12 Dark brown shade
16 Like many colors in 1980s
fashion
22 Templeton of “Charlotte’s Web,”
for one
23 Hypes
25 Members of the Flat Earth
Society, e.g.
27 2008 rom-com starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden
28 Ragamuffin 29 The monster Typhon was said
to be trapped under it, in myth 30 NBC comedy starring Tina Fey
and Alec Baldwin
32 Peeps
35 Something mad people do 36 “I” problems?
37 Covered with condensate 39 1935 Hitchcock thriller, with
“The”
40 Corrodes
41 Inherent nature, figuratively 46 Like some cats and plumbing 47 “Haven’t the foggiest!” … or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this puzzle
48 Balneotherapy locale
50 Rapper Curtis Jackson, more
familiarly
51 Unrefined
52 Land where the concept of zero
was developed
54 Cultural values
57 ___ contendere
58 Singer Mitchell
59 [Cough cough]
60 Guarded
62 Juvenile stage of a newt 65 Noted head turner