The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 The earth before God separated light from darkness, according to the Bible
6 Gives a terrible
review
10 Hip-hop subgenre pioneered by Gucci Mane 14 Like the deities Vishnu and Brahma
15 Street sign near
a school
16 Where the heart
is, in a saying 17 Face-off in a 2004 science fiction film 20 Sick
21 Dah’s counterpart, in Morse code 22 Condition that exists on a spectrum
23 See 44-Across 24 Some office
plants
26 Face-off in a 2021
monster film 32 Sky-blue 33 Section of a
textbook
34 [Now I’m mad!] 36 “This statement
is false,” e.g. 38 Inner circle 41 Before, in poetry 42 Green
movement? 44 With 23-Across, period that began in January 2009
45 Face-off in a 1979 courtroom drama film 49 Chekhov’s “Uncle
___”
50 Some amount 51 State as fact 54 Benchmark:
Abbr.
55 Cry out loud 58 Command that could be given to the title characters in 17-, 26- and 45-Across? 62 Like Iran vis-à-vis
Iraq
63 What grows on
Pinocchio 64 Exercise, as
influence 65 Renaissance
instrument 66 Contacted on Twitter or Instagram, informally
67 Full of the latest
DOWN
1 Spiced tea 2 Locale for Jack
and Jill
3 Indigo plant 4 Keats specialty 5 Like some shriveled tomatoes
6 “Hey, you!” 7 Hiking locale in
Switzerland 8 Neither’s partner 9 Vouches for the
truth of
10 “Oh, really?” 11 Flatbread from
India
12 Singer Tori 13 Wavy do
18 Lab glass 19 Showy basket 23 Poet Pound 24 Enthusiast 25 Kicks out 26 Open wide 27 Missouri’s ___
Mountains 28 Artist Albrecht of the German Renaissance 29 Opulence 30 Google ___ Viewer (tool for charting word frequency over time)
31 Filth
35 Caboose
37 Good thing to keep when trying something new
39 Razed
40 Website that says “Shop by category” 43 Utility org. created in F.D.R.’s New Deal
46 Fly
47 Comma, colon or
apostrophe 48 Singer Perry 51 One of Adam’s
sons
52 German woman’s
title
53 Suffix with
Oktober
54 Flew
55 Crockpot dish 56 Birds that symbolize wisdom
57 Main section of a
letter
59 “Ground control
to Major ___ ...” 60 Consumption 61 180° turn,
informally