The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Parson’s home
6 Fictional hero who cries “I am madness maddened!”
10 Question
persistently
14 Single source?
15 Checks or
balances, say
17 Animal with fused toes, used for grooming its coat
18 Almond treats
19 Last
21 Chain with a mansard roof in its logo
22 Auto-correction?
23 Cooper’s product
25 Name that sounds like a letter of the alphabet
26 Fried turnovers from southern Italy
30 P.R. people: Abbr.
34 Walk way? 35 “Round cleans
better” sloganeer
37 “Looky here!”
38 Champaign region
41 Punnery, e.g.
42 Keep cooler?
43 Shiraz and others
44 Home to Mayor La Guardia’s “Talk to the People” program
46 Oscar winner for “The Accidental Tourist” (1988)
49 ___ moment
51 This might come with breakfast in bed, in brief
52 Brisbane-toSydney dir.
53 What barflies hit
58 “Turn around so I
can see you”
60 Part of the George W. Bush era ... or a hint to part of 18-, 26-, 38- and 46-Across
62 Seeing red
63 Slangy “treatment” for a disturbing visual
64 Singer Cleo with Grammy nominations in jazz, pop and classical
65 See 61-Down 66 Where Al Jazeera is headquartered 67 Flat bottoms
DOWN
1 Blush, e.g.
2 1972 Gilbert O’Sullivan hit with the lyric “Left standing in the lurch at a church” 3 Boston in the ’60s or Chicago in the ’90s, e.g. 4 Recipient of the first Vulcan nerve pinch on the original “Star Trek” 5 Professional concerned with search engine optimization
6 Word with band or candy
7 Junker
8 Business opening?
9 Major downer 10 Main ingredient in a Thai som tam salad
11 “Riders of the Purple Sage” setting
12 Course catalog? 13 Sibilant summons 16 “Cabaret” name 20 Poetic contraction 24 “Club” member in a hit 1985 adventure comedy
27 Minor blemish
28 Instant
29 Roster for William Morris or Creative Artists
31 The ultimate
struggle
32 “I call dibs”
33 Adoption of the International Radiotelegraph Convention in 1906
36 Live tweets?
38 [Gag]
39 Tested, as a cask, to see how much whiskey remains
40 Major PBS funder,
for short
45 Wrinkly fruit
47 1980s sitcom puppet
48 More than 7% of Minnesotans, by ancestry
50 Spoils
53 Gangbusters, in old slang
54 “Howdy!”
55 Shangri-la
56 Onetime labor and transportation secretary Elaine
57 Chisel, in a way
59 Analogue of “aloha” and “shalom”
61 With 65-Across, “Born to Hand Jive” group
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