The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Like the ocean’s
ebb and flow
6 Words said at the
front of an aisle 10 Babysitter’s
handful
14 ___ it all
(unaffected)
15 Giggle
16 Indian flatbread 17 Italian confection brand known for its gold foil wrappers
19 Composer
Stravinsky
20 “Tiny” Dickens
boy
21 Butterflies-to-be 22 Slangy command to someone arriving with a six-pack
23 2007 Alicia Keys
album
25 Scatter like a
flock of birds
27 Home, informally
29 Starts to remove,
as screws
32 Hemmed and ___ 35 Underhanded move for an athlete?
37 “___ Dere” (jazz classic about a toddler’s many questions)
38 Notification
39 One serving punch? ... or, parsed differently, a hint to 12 squares in this puzzle
40 Transport back
and forth
41 Way to go, in
Paris
42 Dough
43 Stiff, as
competition
44 Fall Out Boy, e.g. 46 Item split by
pedants
48 Casual getaways 50 Southwestern
sights
53 Loath (to)
55 Gaming novices 57 La ___, Bolivia
59 Friedrich who created a scale
of hardness
60 Small dog originally bred for fox hunting
62 Soeur’s sibling
63 Drew on
64 Protein-building
acid
65 Swimming
competition
66 ___ Gerritsen,
author of medical and crime thrillers 67 Seasons, in a way
DOWN
1 Only U.S. president also to serve as chief justice
2 Flag carrier airline of Spain
3 Campus quarters
4 Assert
5 Its spots are
actually rosettes
6 Restaurant chain with a smile in its logo
7 Unleaded, so to
speak 8 “Amen!”
9 Oracle
10 Intimate apparel in many lawyer puns
11 First men’s tennis player to reach 10 consecutive
Grand Slam singles finals
12 13 Subject study Exhaust laboratory at of CERN’s
18 13th-century Persian mystic poet and 22 Cutesy sound that may accompany a poke 24 Founder of heavy metal’s Body
Count
26 ___ Highness 28 Temporary embarrassment
in a public competition, figuratively 30 Deal breaker? 31 Eyelid woe
32 Sprinter that’s a homophone of 46-Across
33 One mentioned in “Class Notes,” informally
34 Shout that may accompany many arms waving
36 Rocker Rose
39 ___ fide
40 Much of Finland’s
wilderness
42 Nutmeg’s “sister
spice”
43 Parties that become naps when their first letter is changed to an “s”
45 ___ hound*
47 Dinosaur DNA source in “Jurassic Park”
49 Sensitive spots
51 When many hibernations end
52 Extremely virtuous sort
53 Radio toggle
54 Suffix with omni
56 “What are the ___?”
58 Two-thirds of 100
60 Start of an objection
61 Bombeck who wrote “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”
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