The New York Times crossword puzzle
Malaika Handa and Erik Agard
Across
1 Sitcom joke involving a change in setting
11 Hollow, perhaps
15 What plastic wrap is designed for
16 ___ something
17 Zesty liqueur
18 Not following, maybe
19 Lift up
20 Part of a paw print
21 Surname that’s also transliterated as Zuo
22 Cautionary conjunction
25 Buzzkill’s response while playing Would You Rather
28 On, say
31 Bird named for a Titan
33 Bad mouths?
34 “___ was!” (“No way!,” in German)
35 Panels at anime conventions
37 Asian wrap
38 Gil Scott-Heron poem inspired by 1969 events
42 Mouthy?
43 This old thing? 44 Lump
45 World capital whose last two letters are its first two letters upside down
47 Curing agent
48 High key
49 Where the first five counting numbers are “üks kaks kolm neli viis”
51 Knife cut
53 ___ Nguyen Dan (celebration of spring)
54 Major lobby in D.C.
56 Lead-in to mail or box
60 Lover of Rochester, in fiction
62 World capital on the Aker River
65 Scar line?
66 Priceless, in a way
67 Participates in a Seder, say 68 Deification
Down
1 King of verse
2 System for servers
3 Ghanaian city that’s an anagram of 27-Down
4 Coral arrangement
5 Fruit also called a wax gourd
6 Theater inits.
7 “___-haw!”
8 [This is looking very bad for me]
9 Literary stand-in for Christ
10 Glam rock pieces?
11 Text that’s often an exaggeration
12 “Where do all of these keep coming from?!”
13 “I think I can see a future with him”
14 Turning points
23 Actress Mitchell of “Pretty Little Liars”
24 Range just below 55Down
26 One eating a lot of wings
27 New York Liberty, e.g.
28 Translation of “torah”
29 Select words?
30 Sexy selfie posted on social media, in lingo
32 French film director Varda
36 Provider of a broad world view
39 One may be ordered “con todo”
40 Sledding site
41 Division of Comcast
45 Poetic considerations
46 Activist LaDuke who was twice a Green Party vicepresidential candidate
50 Man known for his morals
52 Middle section
55 See 24-Down
57 “___ born by the river / In a little tent” (start of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”)
58 Sactown’s locale
59 Looks over
61 Sounds of uncertainty
63 Way more than ne’er
64 Japanese masked drama
Style
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