The New York Times Crossword
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1 [I’m speechless!] 5 Float
9 Italian car, informally 13 Northeast Corridor
train
15 1934 novel made into a hit 1970s BBC/PBS miniseries
17 Hawaii’s “Pineapple
Isle”
18 Bus excursions to see
homes of celebrities 19 At the party where the scientist was demonstrating her new shrink ray, [ZAP!] the punch ladle turned into a ...
21 Analogy words
22 West ___ (furniture
chain)
25 Family
28 When the appetizers were passed around, [ZAP!] the potato wedges turned into ... 34 Exaggerate, as a stage
role
36 Flag down 37 Sweetheart, in mod
ern lingo
38 When the main course was ready, [ZAP!] the six-foot hoagie turned into an ...
42 ___ Faire (historical
festival, informally) 43 Territory
44 Didn’t dive (into) 45 When the dessert was brought out, [ZAP!] the pudding cake turned into a ... 49 Boris Johnson, e.g. 50 Mum’s mum 51 Principal
53 Finally, when the still-hungry guests went back for more, [ZAP!] the additional helpings turned into ... 61 Language that gave us
“aardvark” 64 “Middlemarch”
author
65 Prepare for cold
weather
66 Dig (into)
67 Taobao, the so- called
“___ of China” 68 Citrus drinks
69 Trickle
DOWN
1 Audacity
2 It’s berry tasty!
3 On cloud nine
4 Credit card status 5 Domain of Athena 6 Stage opening
7 Tizzy
8 Bit of weatherproof
ing
9 Devotee
10 ___ Yifei, star of
2020’s “Mulan” 11 Something traded at a
trading post
12 Ding- dong
14 Isn’t well 16 People for whom a
state is named 20 Supposed creators of
crop circles, for short 23 Longing to go to bed? 24 More grinchlike 25 Bracelet item 26 Triangular sail
27 King of the Egyptian
gods
29 Leave in ___
30 Setting for the 1962
hit “Monster Mash” 31 Calculus calculation:
Abbr.
32 Scratch or nick 33 Ramshackle
35 A.C.C. team,
informally
39 Mongrel
40 ___ Lanka
41 Squalid abodes 46 Hostile state
47 Misses abroad 48 Before, in verse
52 Kept informed, in a
way
54 Old presidential
nickname
55 Italian term of
endearment
56 It’s a bust
57 Eleven, to an élève 58 Home for many hippos 59 Magician’s bird
60 Put one’s foot down 61 Dazzle
62 “You’ve hardly aged a
bit,” usually
63 Genetic material