NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Classic makeshift solution
9 Side dish at a Korean restaurant 15 Sent
16 Some spuds 17 Luxuriating in the
great outdoors 18 George who directed “Night of the Living Dead” 19 ___ Evans, manytime collaborator with Miles Davis 20 Alveolus, e.g. 21 What’s got you
down?
22 Just got (by) 24 San Diego’s ___
Institute
26 “… ish”
27 Make more secure,
in a way 29 Cleansing of the
soul
32 Pro Bowl team that wears blue jerseys
34 Game played with
beanbags
35 Gas pump abbr. 38 Megan who was Sports Illustrated’s 2019 Sportsperson of the Year 40 Impetus for a
rescue mission 41 Unbiased opinion,
e.g.
43 Asheville-to
Knoxville dir. 45 Convenience store
sign 47 Caesar dressing ingredient, familiarly
51 Spots for wet bars 52 Man’s name that rhymes with a number
54 Rachel ___, sevenseason TV role for Meghan Markle 55 Collection of
seeds?
58 “You thought!” 60 Prime meridian std. 61 Finance reporter
Ron
62 Click the “X” when
vexed, maybe 64 Kind of roll
65 Drain
66 Sends 67 Something you might earn by having a long crossword-solving streak, informally
DOWN
1 Construction site sight
2 Change of heart on Facebook
3 Home in the mountains
4 Pro ___
5 Music of the night? 6 Alternatives to Nikes
7 Ink saver 8 Subtitles option: Abbr.
9 Soprano ___ Te Kanawa 10 Fetishized one 11 Ginormous
12 The surface tension of milk makes them stick together
13 Bit of jazz improv 14 Atoms that have the same number of neutrons
21 Home of Minor League Baseball’s RubberDucks 23 Hubbub 25 Grammy-winning
folk singer Williams 28 Zac of “17 Again” 30 Bloom or balloon 31 Bring to ___ 33 Dealers have lots of
them
35 Transport not
meant for trails 36 Like contractors vis
à-vis employees 37 Settings for pep
rallies
39 Gist
42 Wrong for the role 44 Virtuoso, informally 46 Flammable compound with two carbons 48 Auto whose engine
is apt to purr? 49 Opposite of remote 50 Cleared
53 Hot to trot
56 It’s a real bender 57 Wearable Disneyland memento 59 Collective 62 Knights of ___
(“Star Wars” order) 63 HSN alternative