NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plays for time,

in a way

6 Word repeated by Hamlet before “solid flesh” 9 Hairstyle for

Audre Lorde

13 Bozo 14 13th-century Persian mystic who is one of the bestselling poets in the U.S. 16 Cookout side dish 17 Mario Kart

contestant

18 The Aggies of the Mountain West Conference 20 “Blech!”

21 Black ___ 23 Indigenous 24 Decorative items washed up on the beach

27 Meal accompaniment at a trattoria 28 Flotsam and Jetsam in “The Little Mermaid”

29 Crusty piece

of bread

31 Stick up

34 The Lorax’s final

word

36 ___ Duncan, Obama education secretary 37 Musician Yoko 38 Hollywood’s Dwayne Johnson, with “the”

39 Like the blood of a

universal donor 41 Tech that enables contactless credit card payments 42 Neither’s partner 43 Wedge, e.g. 44 Loquacious

46 Bit of water or snow

equipment

47 What a QR code at a restaurant might link to

48 Verdant

49 Digs

51 Most desirable, say,

as a ripe peach 55 “Can it!”

57 Where Boxing Day comes before Christmas, in brief? 58 Ill

59 Jiffy 61 Underwater

ecosystems 63 Cooling succulent 64 It may be taken

in protest

65 Start of a saying

about staying fit 66 Lairs

67 Is the pope

Catholic?

68 Adam who directed

“The Big Short”

DOWN

1 Malware, often 2 “Curiosity killed

the cat,” e.g. 3 Author of

“Jurassic Park” 4 Who wrote “To Helen”

and “For Annie” 5 Ambles

6 Support structure 7 Not in the closet 8 Muscat’s sultanate 9 Actor John or Sean 10 Fleeting romantic

interest

11 Give feedback on

Yelp, maybe

12 Fall short

15 “Beats me!”

19 It may turn at a

station 22 Shift blame to

someone else 25 Nerdy sort

26 “Get it together!” ... or a hint to the highlighted letters 30 ’Fore

32 “Roger that, boss!” 33 Corpus

34 Locales for some

Grecian art

35 Cozy place 40 Thither

41 Farrier’s tool 43 Strike hard,

in the Bible

45 Like the same

old same old 50 Hiding soldiers in the Trojan horse and such

52 Good things

to strike

53 Actress Vergara 54 Quick to snap 55 Lone

56 One providing a ride at a fair, maybe

59 Tricked

60 French word

between two names 62 “Exit” key