The New York Times Crossword
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 (misbe
having)
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-turned-writer 30 Is on the same page
31 Dexterous
33 Milky gem
36 Put two and two to
gether, 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 famil
iar 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 resi
dent
45 Wedding guest’s part
ner, say
46 Only mortal Gorgon in
Greek myth 47 Recurring theme 49 Penultimate word in a
fairy tale 51 Attempting to, casual
ly
53 G.P.A. booster
54 Kick out
56 Divulge
59 Pre- euro currency 63 Christmastime concoc
tion
64 Doctors’ org.