NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
PUZZlE by AlinA Abidi
ACROSS
1 Breaded and topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella, for short
5 “Holy
mackerel!”
9 Instrument played by indie rock’s Sufjan Stevens
13 Black-andwhite item in a sleeve
14 V.I.P. on base
15 Winter bugs 16 With 26Across, game that uses a blindfold
18 Part of the
food pyramid 19 Gardening
tool
20 Fruit in the William Carlos Williams poem “This Is Just to Say” 22 Edward Snowden’s former employer, in brief
23 Black History
Mo.
26 See 16-Across 29 “Why?”
31 Puts up
32 Bird that had no natural predators until humans arrived
33 Tick (off)
35 Babe Zaharias was the first woman to compete on its tour, in brief
36 Item exchanged in a so-called “yankee swap”
41 John Lewis was born here: Abbr.
42 Org. that oversees O.T.C.s 43 Campaign
expense
45 Get situated 48 Pacify
50 Frequent reveler, or a hint to 16/26and 36Across
53 Hit the slopes 54 “___ be my
pleasure”
55 Lots
56 Hearty laugh
58 Tidy
60 Cartoonist suggested by this puzzle’s theme
65 Brand in the ice cream aisle
66 Aches (for) 67 Words after a
gasp
68 Its underside might be covered in gum
69 The first cloned mammals
70 Yarn
DOWN
1 Dad
2 “Midsommar”
director Aster 3 ___ faire (historical re-enactment event, for short)
4 Fly-by-night
type?
5 Fuel up, in a
way
6 Visual in an
annual report 7 Nimble
8 Hornswoggle 9 Toggle option 10 Artist’s
starting place 11 Get-go
12 Guest ___, what The New York Times calls op-eds 14 What an asterisk might suggest
17 Centaur’s foot 21 Transform
23 Repeated string in a chain letter subject line 24 Website with articles like “10 Surprising Ways to Use Mayonnaise Around Your Home”
25 Things best kept under one’s hat? 27 Data structure with a root node
28 Undo
30 Half of a halfbathroom 34 Tiny toy
maker
37 Tucker who had her first hit in 1972 and won her first Grammys in 2020
38 Cheese used in Babybels
39 Fruits whose seeds can act as a substitute for black peppercorns 40 Something to
do
44 Latin gods
45 Shared one’s
views
46 For all ages, as
a video game 47 Tell
49 Also
51 At all, in
dialect
52 Combined
57 Pretzel,
basically
59 Shaming
syllable
61 Drug dosages:
Abbr.
62 Light bulb moment sound
63 Show with the recurring character Target Lady, in brief
64 “Piggy”
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