The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 ___ Newton (cookie)
4 Salty water
9 In ___ land (dreaming)
13 Many a craft brew, in brief
14 Just before the weekend
15 Big name in polo shirts
16 Alternative to Zumba
18 ___ pro quo
19 “Don’t get any funny ___”
20 Ad ___ committee
21 Opportunities to play in games
22 Govt. org. with a classified budget
24 Chevy S.U.V. 26 Donated
29 Where to order a Blizzard
34 Poem of tribute
35 Trader ___ (restaurant eponym)
36 Break into with intent to steal
37 Illegally downloaded
40 Early offering, as of goods
41 More sunburned
42 Mai ___ (cocktail)
43 “Look what I ___!”
44 Supposed means of communication with the dead
46 Employs
47 When some local news airs
48 ... —- ...
50 Construction details
53 Like many HDTVs, in brief
55 Change with the times
59 Interlaced threads
60 Biggest city in South Dakota
62 Like, with “to”
63 Noted portrait photographer Anne
64 Place to apply ChapStick
65 What ice cubes do in the hot sun
66 Lock of hair
67 What the circled letters all mean
DOWN
1 Country whose name is a brand of bottled water
2 Apple tablet
3 Fixed look
4 “I’m f-f-freezing!”
5 Like the 1%
6 Nonsensical
7 Daytona 500 acronym
8 CBS logo
9 Kahlúa and Sambuca
10 Côte d’___ (French Riviera)
11 Cut of a pork roast
12 Puts two and two together, say
14 Admit, with “up”
17 Grey who wrote “Riders of the Purple Sage”
21 Chef’s hat
23 Most words ending in “-ly”
25 Cars with gas/ electric engines
26 Lose one’s amateur status
27 Fancy goodbye
28 Giuseppe who composed “Rigoletto”
30 Assistance
31 “Holy smokes!”
32 Singer Goulding
33 Food, water and air
38 Next (to)
39 Things milking machines attach to
40 Number on a miniature golf card
42 Some reading for an I.R.S. auditor
45 Slicker
46 Meat-inspecting org.
49 Ham-handed sorts
50 Participated in the first third of a triathlon
51 Rude touch
52 “Don’t be ___” (Google motto)
54 Clothing, informally
56 Friend in a conflict
57 Ballet bend
58 Measures of salt and sugar: Abbr.
60 One crying “Hup, two, three, four!”: Abbr.
61 Critical marks on treasure maps