NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Royal Catherine 5 All-day, in a way 9 Rides

13 Agave lookalike 14 Spring, for one 15 Fancy summer

home

16 Grocery store worker on the days leading up to Thanksgiving? 19 Dress (up) 20 Cheesemaking

town

21 Salty expanses 22 Incense residue 23 One who’s acting

out?

24 Some trimmings 25 Pamphlets on how

to use marinara? 31 Lecherous sort 33 Beginning of time? 34 When doubled, mouse-bopping bunny in a children’s song

35 Sporty Pontiac 38 One with a tattoo of a band’s name, say

41 Oxygen makes up only one-fifth of this on the earth 42 Gossip, slangily 44 Part of some

musical keys 45 Bookie?

50 Card game shout 51 Winners of a 1932

Australian “war” 52 Org. using millimeter wave scanners

55 Inedible jelly on a

buffet table 58 49-Down’s city, familiarly 59 Shubert of Broadway’s Shubert Theatre 60 Devices that help dentists monitor anesthesia?

63 En pointe

64 Its flag has “Allahu Akbar” written 22 times

65 Repeated words in an analogy 66 Common catch 67 Hunt and peck, say 68 Pronto

DOWN

1 It gets into hot water

2 Chorus section 3 Inauspicious beginning

4 Certain whistleblower

5 Hardly basic 6 Personal friend in France

7 Something cephalopods control for camouflage

8 Units on a graduated cylinder: Abbr.

9 Fine point 10 ___-Seltzer 11 Campbell with the 1975 #1 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy”

12 2003 outbreak 15 Outspoken 17 Pelvis/patella connectors 18 Sticky ___ pudding 26 Author Rand

27 It’s set in a ring 28 Easy-peasy 29 Speckled

30 Maker of the first portable music player

31 Guess

32 Grammy winner

India.___

36 When both hands

are up

37 Unit of RAM 39 Passes, but not

with flying colors 40 Shinzo ___, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister 43 Representative’s

work

46 Powerful engines 47 Feature of many a

belly

48 Angsty hip-hop

subgenre 49 Prestigious university in 58-Across 53 Company whose mascots are sheep with numbers painted on them 54 Author whose titles often feature two animals

55 One with an upturned nose, so to speak 56 Common catch 57 CPR specialists 61 “Scram!”

62 Car once advertised with the slogan “The power to surprise”