Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Ready to explode
9 Mechanical calculator pioneer
15 Mesmerize
16 Do high-level banking?
17 Exquisitely delicate
18 Disorganized group
19 Set off
20 Got room service, say
22 Stripling
23 Greek goddess of witchcraft and the underworld
26 Smooth talker’s quality
28 Possible reply to someone’s tactful remark 31 Wild grp.
32 “Venus favors the bold” writer
33 Jack of “Dragnet”
36 Travel aimlessly
37 Cat known as a Shirazi in the Mideast 41 Stand’s opposite … or a bad thing to do on the stand
42 Ruckus
44 Humorist Bombeck
45 Just make, with “out”
46 Be really bothered by
51 Dance music subgenre
53 Opposite of kindness
54 Ad ___
55 Up next
58 ___ perpetuum (let it be everlasting: Lat.)
59 Any of four punk rock bandmates
61 Ruble : Russian :: kuna : ___
64 Goes around
65 Newspaper photo technique
66 Antarctica, for one
67 Image that’s very pleasing to look at
Down
1 Hallucinate
2 Showy ballet leap
3 Philosophical issues that may be debated
4 Mine shaft borer
5 Snarky laugh syllable
6 Suffix with brilliant
7 Awarder of billions in sports scholarships, in brief
8 Lucre
9 Outcast
10 Classic Studebaker
11 Twin, to the other twin 12 What 90% of American households had in 2010 — but fewer have today
13 Book of legends
14 English industrial city described by Dickens as “an odious place”
21 Ratings org.
24 Pontiac Trans Am option
25 Water diverter
27 L.A.-to-Fresno direction
29 Cassis cocktail
30 Car that’s an anagram of 14Down
34 Sight on school grounds
35 A little extra for personal spending 38 E.U. member: Abbr.
39 City in the Midwest’s Story County
40 California tour locale
43 Mythical bird
47 One getting
hit after hit?
48 Polar explorer Shackleton
49 Swillbelly
50 One-named folk singer
51 Was off
52 Be off
56 Great desire
57 Request intervention
60 Its first part is called a strophe
62 Estadio exclamation
63 Houston is in it, but Dallas isn’t, briefly