NW Democrat-Gazette

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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