NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Talon
5 Sign of a
wound’s healing
9 Wallace of Fox
News
14 Smog, e.g.
15 “This is
terrible!”
16 White
gemstone
17 White gemstone
18 Australian wind
instrument
20 “Hmm, good
enough”
22 Way over there,
quaintly
23 Minor fender
damage
24 Fish eggs
25 Caller of balls
and strikes
27 Kind of pudding
29 Hole-digging
tool
31 U.S. president who was once president of the Harvard Law Review
33 Fleming who
created 007
34 Third-largest
city in Japan
36 Rubber gaskets
38 System of underwater mountains
41 Dine at a
restaurant
42 Artist’s stand
43 Two auto-racing
Unsers
44 Exchange 46 City between Phoenix and Mesa
50 Horror film villain with a knife
52 Reggae relative
54 Atmosphere
55 Fraternity party costume made from a bedsheet
56 Forlorn
58 Belfast’s
province
60 Wedding
attendant
63 Book after II
Chronicles
64 Like the smell of burning rubber
65 ___-European
languages
66 Threadbare
67 Sch. in New
Haven, Conn.
68 Insolent talk
69 Place to store
garden tools
DOWN
1 Church groups
in robes
2 Take-it-with
you computer
3 Pink-flowering
shrub
4 In good health
5 Wicked city in
Genesis
6 Ho ___ Minh
City
7 Tennis’s Murray
or Roddick
8 Capital of
Colombia 9 Lifesaving subj. taught by the Red Cross
10 Longtime “Project Runway” host Klum
11 Communicating
by wireless
12 Severe place of
confinement
13 “Think” for IBM and “Think outside the bun” for Taco Bell
19 Fills with love
21 Exactly below,
on a map
26 Jab
28 ___ lobe (part of
the brain)
30 “Dumb” bird
32 Sounded like
sheep
35 Tyne Daly or
Keira Knightley
37 Not busy
38 Spanish resort
island, to locals
39 Delivery room
announcement
40 Scottish
refusals
41 Locale of Oakland and Alameda
45 One of the Three Musketeers
47 Unleavened bread for Passover
48 Justin Trudeau’s
father
49 Quick trip to a store and back, e.g.
51 “Sexy ___”
(Beatles song)
53 Words of praise
57 Comic Carvey
once of “S.N.L.”
59 Stitches
61 End of a school’s
email address
62 Two forms of them are found in 18-, 38- and 60-Across