The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Jab with a knife 5 Word after monkey or

handle

9 Social class in India 14 Grammy winner India.___

15 Suffix with period or

class

16 ___ : first :: omega :

last

17 2011 film co-starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams 20 “I’ll wait to hear from

you online”

21 Luau dish

22 Anger

23 Nat ___ (cable channel)

24 “You ___ be kidding!” 25 Football scores, for

short

26 App introduced in 2010 to locate a missing Apple product 30 Prominent part of

Dumbo

31 Ambulance workers,

in brief

32 Lollygagged

35 “The ___ From Ipanema” (1964 hit) 37 Business operations,

informally

40 Large, flat-topped hill 41 Environmentally conscious

43 The whole nine yards 45 331/3 or 45: Abbr. 46 Mr. Spock player 50 Hurricane’s center 52 Down with the flu, say 53 Opposite of WSW 54 Restroom, for short 55 ___ Lilly (pharmaceutical giant)

56 So-so

60 Decided otherwise & or a hint to the four sets of circled letters 63 Ancient land that lent its name to an order of architecture

64 Fe, chemically

65 “An apple ___ keeps

&”

66 A little off mentally 67 Tenth of a dime 68 What just happened?

DOWN

1 Identical

2 Remove, as fat 3 Musical set in ancient

Egypt

4 Not harmful

5 Title house owner in a 2000 Martin Lawrence comedy

6 It’s gotta hurt

7 Cousin of a mouse 8 Goof

9 Building pictured on

the back of a $50 bill 10 Pie ___ mode 11 Sugar-free lemon-lime

soda

12 Place for a bronze

medalist 13 Makes more bearable 18 ___ la Cité (bit of land

in the Seine)

19 Quick snack

24 Place an “X” in the

wrong spot on, say 26 So-so

27 Not pertinent

28 Abbr. on a pay stub 29 War zone for Rambo,

informally

30 Silly Putty container 33 Annual TV award for

athletes

34 Hoover ___

36 Director Spike or singer Brenda

38 “___ be my pleasure!” 39 Happening that’s no

big whoop

42 Small bouquet

44 Fan mags

47 “Blue” or “White”

river

48 Like vinegar 49 Broadway belter Ethel 50 11th-century Spanish

hero

51 “Hurray!”

56 In a little while, in

poetry

57 Assistant

58 Chew (on), beaverstyle

59 Ice cream brand 61 Small point to pick 62 About which someone might say “Get the lead out!”