NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sitcom joke involving a change in setting

11 Hollow, perhaps 15 What plastic wrap is designed for

16 ___ something 17 Zesty liqueur

18 Not following, maybe

19 Lift up

20 Part of a paw print 21 Surname that’s also transliterated as Zuo

22 Cautionary conjunction 25 Buzzkill’s response while playing Would You Rather

28 On, say

31 Bird named for a Titan

33 Bad mouths?

34 “___ was!” (“No way!,” in German) 35 Panels at anime conventions 37 Asian wrap

38 Gil Scott-heron poem inspired by 1969 events 42 Mouthy?

43 This old thing? 44 Lump

45 World capital whose last two letters are its first two letters upside down

47 Curing agent 48 High key

49 Where the first five counting numbers are “üks kaks kolm neli viis”

51 Knife cut

53 ___ Nguyen Dan (celebration of spring)

54 Major lobby in D.C. 56 Lead-in to mail or box

60 Lover of Rochester, in fiction

62 World capital on the Aker River 65 Scar line? 66 Priceless, in a way 67 Participates in a Seder, say 68 Deification

DOWN

1 King of verse 2 System for servers 3 Ghanaian city that’s an anagram of 27-Down

4 Coral arrangement 5 Fruit also called a wax gourd

6 Theater inits. 7 “___-haw!”

8 [This is looking very bad for me] 9 Literary stand-in for Christ

10 Glam rock pieces? 11 Text that’s often an exaggeration 12 “Where do all of these keep coming from?!”

13 “I think I can see a future with him” 14 Turning points 23 Actress Mitchell of “Pretty Little Liars” 24 Range just below

55-Down

26 One eating a lot of

wings

27 New York Liberty,

e.g.

28 Translation of

“torah”

29 Select words? 30 Sexy selfie posted on social media, in lingo

32 French film director

Varda

36 Provider of a broad

world view

39 One may be

ordered “con todo” 40 Sledding site 41 Division of Comcast 45 Poetic

considerations 46 Activist Laduke who was twice a Green Party vicepresidential candidate

50 Man known for his

morals

52 Middle section 55 See 24-Down

57 “___ born by the river / In a little tent” (start of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”) 58 Sactown’s locale 59 Looks over 61 Sounds of

uncertainty

63 Way more than

ne’er

64 Japanese masked

drama