NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Block letters?

4 Clue weapon 10 They may be cured 14 Constellation beneath the tail of Scorpius

15 Novelist ___ de Balzac

16 Mine, in Marseille 17 Sign on a mountain roadway 20 Perennial known for attracting butterflies

21 Simple bike trick 22 Famed French wine region

26 Lead-in to X, Y or Z 27 Apple platform 28 Disconnect

29 Go, on a Monopoly board, e.g.

31 1974 C.I.A. spoof 33 Heater

34 Put on low, in a way 35 Dinnertime annoyance 38 Rocky’s love in “Rocky”

41 Crew mover 42 Hideo who threw no-hitters in both the American and National Leagues 46 Fitting nickname for athletes at Whittier College 47 “Deadline: White House” channel 49 Photographer Goldin

BABY BLUES

BALDO

B.C.

BEETLE BAILEY

BLONDIE

DUSTIN 50 Greeting in

63-Across

51 Actor with a “Rocky” performance, familiarly

54 “Do tell!”

56 Dental crown

alternative

57 Group whose motto is a hint to this puzzle’s theme 61 Property claim 62 Cook slowly, in a

way

63 City that’s home to the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally 64 Crispy brisket bits 65 They might appear

in cameos 66 Chinos color

DOWN

1 Travels à la Theodore Roosevelt in 1909-10

2 What might be in trouble if it’s out of the woods? 3 Bookstore section 4 Spins

5 ___ Cephas Jones, Emmy winner for “This Is Us”

6 Winner of the 1966 World Cup: Abbr. 7 Here-there link 8 Rooster, at sunup 9 Actress Anne 10 Visibility reducer 11 Blend 12 “Tartuffe”

playwright 13 February 4th, for many?

18 Wolf ___, sea urchin

predator

19 Enters, as data 23 Like soy milk

24 Like most ice rinks 25 Amount in red 30 Tax evasion agts. 32 What the nests in bird’s-nest soup are made of

34 Kevin who played

Hercules 36 Irritating

inconvenience 37 Pessimist’s word 38 John or Paul, but

not Ringo

39 Sea creature pictured on the flag of Anguilla

40 Ran again

43 Ready for

trouble

44 Illness that tonic water was invented to treat

45 Sole heir, perhaps 47 “Let me go now” 48 Benjamins 52 Reason to lower the

bar

53 Las Vegas-todenver dir.

55 Part of the eye 58 “Supposing …” 59 “Kid-tested” cereal 60 Language suffix