The new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 Block letters? 4 Clue weapon 10 They may be
cured 14 Constellation beneath the tail of Scorpius 15 Novelist ___
de Balzac 16 Mine, in
Marseille 17 Sign on a mountain roadway 20 Perennial known for attracting butterflies 21 Simple bike
trick
22 Famed French
wine region 26 Lead-in to
X, Y or Z 27 Apple platform 28 Disconnect 29 Go, on a Monopoly board, e.g. 31 1974 C.I.A.
spoof
33 Heater
34 Put on low, in a
way 35 Dinnertime
annoyance 38 Rocky’s love in
“Rocky” 41 Crew mover 42 Hideo who threw no-hitters in both the American and National Leagues 46 Fitting nickname for athletes at Whittier College 47 “Deadline: White House” channel 49 Photographer
Goldin 50 Greeting in
63-Across 51 Actor with a “Rocky” performance, familiarly 54 “Do tell!” 56 Dental crown
alternative 57 Group whose motto is a hint to this puzzle’s theme 61 Property claim 62 Cook slowly, in
a way
63 City that’s home to the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally 64 Crispy brisket
bits
65 They might appear in cameos 66 Chinos color
DOWN
1 Travels à la Theodore Roosevelt in 1909-10 2 What might be in trouble if it’s out of the woods? 3 Bookstore
section
4 Spins
5 ___ Cephas Jones, Emmy winner for “This Is Us” 6 Winner of the 1966 World Cup: Abbr. 7 Here-there link 8 Rooster, at
sunup
9 Actress Anne 10 Visibility
reducer 11 Blend 12 “Tartuffe”
playwright 13 February 4th,
for many? 18 Wolf ___, sea urchin predator
19 Enters, as data 23 Like soy milk 24 Like most ice
rinks 25 Amount in red 30 Tax evasion
agts.
32 What the nests in bird’s-nest soup are made of
34 Kevin who played Hercules Irritating inconvenience 37 Pessimist’s
word
38 John or Paul,
but not Ringo 39 Sea creature pictured on the flag of Anguilla
36 40 Ran again 43 Ready for
trouble 44 Illness that tonic water was invented to treat
45 Sole heir,
perhaps 47 “Let me go
now” 48 Benjamins 52 Reason to lower the bar
53 Las Vegas-to
Denver dir. 55 Part of
the eye 58 “Supposing …” 59 “Kid-tested”
cereal 60 Language
suffix