NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Pulsate, as with pain
6 What a red traffic light means 10 Container for soup or cereal
14 ___ acid (protein builder)
15 “Very funny!”
16 Eye layer 17 Chocolaty candy on a stick
19 500 sheets of paper
20 Realtors’ showings 21 Endless, in poetry 23 Guard at an entrance
26 Length x width, for a rectangle 27 Desertlike 28 Breakfast cereal with a naval officer on its box
33 Put through a blast furnace, say 35 Dissolute sort 36 Rope-a-dope boxer 37 ___-relief
38 Two marks in “résumés” 41 Easy-to-chew food 42 It ends with diciembre
43 Danny who co-starred in “White Christmas”
44 Make red-faced 46 Brittle, spicy cookie 50 Besides
51 Hilarious person 52 Plan going forward,
as for peace
54 As originally placed 57 Constantly rising things in gentrifying neighborhoods 58 Where Hartford is:
Abbr.
59 Broadcast news snippets … or an apt description for 17-, 28- and 46-Across? 64 Grand-scale
production
65 ___ Krabappel, teacher on “The Simpsons”
66 Love, love, love 67 Meyers of late-night 68 Most mammals
have four of them 69 Core belief
DOWN
1 Tit for ___
2 Care provider, briefly
3 2016 Olympics host, informally 4 Hush-hush, slangily 5 ___ buddy
6 “For Your Eyes Only” singer Easton 7 Water spigots 8 “Look what I found!”
9 Slice from a book? 10 The “B” of F.B.I. 11 On top of 12 Withdraw gradually (from)
13 Unfunny, as a joke 18 Apple desktop 22 Mother canonized
in 2016 23 Long-winded sort 24 Italian designer
Giorgio
25 Attaches using
string
26 Unknown author,
for short
29 Fuss in front of the
mirror
30 Incendiary weapon used in the Vietnam War
31 Category for a
minor-league team 32 Rap, by another
name
34 “Grab this!” 39 Amusement park ride that goes around and around 40 Growth under the
skin
45 Unflattering angle
of one’s face 47 Christmas stealer in
a Dr. Seuss book 48 Stadiums
49 Duck’s habitat 53 Hitter’s turn to hit 54 Helps reduce the
swelling of, say 55 Slangy refusal 56 Foul mood
57 Step on a ladder 60 Poem of praise 61 2,000 pounds 62 Before, poetically 63 “On your mark,
get ___ …”