The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Get in the game? 5 Home of the comics heroes Asterix and Obelix
9 Month with a socalled “hunter’s moon”: Abbr. 12 “Let’s Make ___” 13 Actor Edward
James ___
15 “It’s cold in
here!”
16 What might be rolled for a strike
18 Put (down)
19 ___ no good
(misbehaving) 20 Bud … or bait 21 Slightly off 23 Verse in a poem 25 What a clock
might strike
27 [A spider!]
28 ___ Fleming, British naval intelligence officer-turnedwriter
30 Is on the same
page
31 Dexterous 33 Milky gem
36 Put two and two
together, say 37 What might strike during a storm 40 Mermaid’s home 42 Place for a fork …
or a jackknife? 43 Cry of pain 46 Popular Nissan
model
48 “For sure!” 50 Ctrl-___-Del 52 Who might go on
strike
55 Plush fabric 57 Religious believer of a sort
58 Rod between
wheels
60 Site for buying
and selling crafts 61 Letters on a
Forever stamp 62 What might strike you while solving this puzzle
65 6-3 in tennis, e.g. 66 Place to leave one’s shoes, perhaps 67 Disney heroine whose name means “ocean” 68 Firefighter’s tool 69 Many a big
charity event 70 “Bird by Bird”
writer Lamott
DOWN
1 Took home a “furever friend,” say
2 Fresh spin on a
familiar concept 3 Prey-catching
claw
4 Inventor Whitney 5 Painter Vincent
van ___
6 Lady Gaga’s “The Fame” or “Artpop”
7 It’s not sweet, sour, salty or bitter
8 Response to a funny text (that usually isn’t literally true) 9 Beholden (to) 10 Suddenly stopped working, as a computer
11 Secret meetings 12 Mistreat
14 Sort of language generally found in Urban Dictionary 17 Final Four org. 22 Desert illusion 24 Rigatoni relative 26 Surrealist
Salvador 29 Manhattan neighborhood containing some of N.Y.U. 32 Thrashes about 34 Org. that provides chaperones for field trips 35 Name on Woody’s shoe in “Toy Story” 38 Overcast
39 Wall Street inits.
since 1792
40 Like some
couples
41 Atone for 44 Mekong Valley
resident 45 Wedding guest’s
partner, say 46 Only mortal Gorgon in Greek myth
47 Recurring theme 49 Penultimate word in a fairy tale
51 Attempting to,
casually
53 G.P.A. booster 54 Kick out 56 Divulge 59 Pre-euro
currency 63 Christmastime
concoction 64 Doctors’ org.