NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
Edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY ALAN MASSENGILL
ACROSS
1 Possible result of a TMZ story
6 Behind, nautically
11 “American Dad!” network
14 Theme of la festa di San Valentino
15 Spanish equivalent of “Basta!”
16 Word with know or show
17 Future zombie’s last words?
19 Virtuoso
20 This is only a test
21 Sauce that’s 80% vowels
22 Worshipper at the ancient Qorikancha (“Golden Temple”)
23 Core group
25 Black-and-white movie effect
27 Country music standard at zombie karaoke night?
32 Ending for some government
37-Across
33 Poker giveaway
34 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” poet
37 Info in a modern bibliography
39 Gets warmer, so to speak
42 Tackles, say
43 Kind of reform or code
45 “Read the clues carefully” and “Check your crossing answers” [You’re welcome!]
47 Big name in nail polish
48 Reason the zombies are, of course, skipping the empty house?
52 “Abso-lutely not!”
54 Be over
55 Broadcast journalist Paula
56 Purple shade
59 Not do anything
63 ___-Man
64 Zombies’ cry in the face of defeat?
66 Landmark 1973 court case, familiarly
67 Sync up
68 With 13-Down, playground promise
69 White wine aperitif
70 Old Apple Store offerings
71 Ophthalmological ailments
DOWN
1 Sweets
2 Discover alternative, for short
3 Toon with a talking map
4 Fundamental
5 On the ___ (frequently, in modern slang)
6 Pro’s opposite
7 Classic clown name
8 Picturesque town on the Gulf of Salerno
9 Adroit
10 Sound made with one’s tongue
11 “I really appreciate it!”
12 Ball game
13 See 68-Across
18 Expedite
22 Causes of some brain freezes 24 Sandwich that’s 100% consonants
26 “Ugh!”
27 “My turn!”
28 Can
29 Something that may be pulled in college
30 “Bravo!” relative
31 Author of the
“Symposium”
35 Stick with it!
36 Commotion
38 Suppressed
40 “Spare” item
41 Wild times at the mall, say
44 What the DEA might keep tabs on?
46 ___ Ysidro, Calif.
49 Bassett of “Black Panther”
50 Ideal picnic forecast
51 “Yay, me!”
52 Netflix crime drama
set in the Midwest
53 World capital with traditional water puppet shows for tourists
57 Preceder of a certain “-naut”
58 Puts on paper
60 Withhold from
61 Canoeing locale
62 Turkey Hill competitor
64 Colorless
65 Photo finish?
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