The New York Times Crossword
No. 1202
ACROSS
1 Process of childbirth
6 Mountains seen in “The Sound of Music”
10 Adjusts lengthwise, as a skirt
14 Manage to dodge
15 “I’ll ___” (“Try me”)
16 Impulse
17 Hurt in the bullring
18 Scrabble or Monopoly
20 Be obligated to
21 Set on fire
23 Curly and Shemp’s fellow Stooge
24 Syncopated Latin dances
26 Rational selves, to Freud
28 Place to set a baby or a napkin
31 Nigerian princes offering you money, probably
32 Craving companionship 34 Assn. like Oxfam or Doctors Without Borders 35 Degs. for entrepreneurs
36 ___ milk (source of Roquefort cheese)
37 Pretend
39 High cry at doggie day care 40 High point
41 High point 42 Fearsome figure of folklore
43 Flat tire’s need 44 Prepare to take, as a test
46 Helps with a heist 48 Piper’s son who stole a pig in a nursery rhyme 49 Tennis great Roddick
50 Morse code O’s have three of them
52 Grp. of medical providers 53 Othello, e.g. 55 Cotton gin inventor Whitney 56 Learns about through books 60 Flowed out, as the tide
62 All tidied up 63 Painful to the touch
64 Vestige
65 Many an Eastern European
66 Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, to Madonna
67 Puts into categories
DOWN
1 Kids’ construction bricks
2 Statement of affirmation
3 Smallest possible amount
4 Beethoven’s “___ to Joy”
5 W.W. I fighter pilot who is Snoopy’s fantasy opponent
6 Shortened word, for short
7 Classic actor who played Mr. Potter in “It’s a Wonderful Life”
8 School grp. for moms and dads
9 Church talks
10 Colossal
11 Distinctive stretch of time
12 Film studio with a roaring lion
13 “Get it?”
19 Spoonful of medicine, e.g.
22 Letters on some American naval vessels
25 Ready to take home, as groceries
27 Flip out
28 Reduce one’s standards, as illustrated, respectively, in 3-, 5-, 7-, 40-and
28-Down
29 City that’s home to Iowa State
30 Boll weevil, to a cotton farmer
33 World ___ of Poker
35 “Sheesh!”
37 Observe Ramadan
38 Prefix with plasm
40 Businesses like the Kit Kat Klub in a hit musical
42 Pointless
45 Candied Thanksgiving servings 46 Hullabaloo
47 Opt for
51 French fries and coleslaw, often
52 Modern viewing for couch potatoes
54 Change for a five, say
56 Many I.C.U. workers
57 Long-bodied fish
58 High bond rating
59 Disease that causes a skin rash
61 Male buddy