Chicago Sun-Times

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “City/highway/

combined” stat 4 Pampering place

for purring pets 10 Article that Ohio State University surprising­ly managed to trademark in 2022 13 Greek god often depicted with a helmet and shield 15 Imperfect 16 Alley-___

(basketball pass) 17 Role for which James Gandolfini won three Emmys 19 GPS

approximat­ion 20 Hearty steakhouse

option

21 Start of an online

address 22 Common deg. for

a professor

23 Kind of lane marked with a diamond

24 “___ Twist, Scientist” (kids’ book)

26 Out of the country 29 Cipher machine of

W.W. II

31 Silicon Valley city whose name translates to “tall stick”

33 “You just blew my mind,” using a modern spelling 34 Word after G or e 36 Gets ready to yell “Surprise!,” perhaps

37 Stable

temperamen­t 40 Pioneer in arcade

games

43 Food with a shell 44 Tiny bit 48 Freshwater fish named for its shoreline habitat 50 Have a predilecti­on

for

52 British Conservati­ve Party, colloquial­ly 53 “Under the ___” (Oscar-winning song from “The Little Mermaid”) 54 Close relatives,

informally 55 Swindle

56 “Easier said ___

done”

59 Standards 61 Teacher’s cover 62 What the ends of 17-, 31-, 37- and 48-Across are, collective­ly 64 School fund-raising

grp.

65 One who’s always

calling people out? 66 Ken’s Mojo Dojo ___ House (redundantl­y named dwelling in “Barbie”)

67 Until now

68 About 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth

69 Novelist Brown

DOWN

1 Actor Macfadyen

of “Succession” 2 Like some free

legal work 3 Fictional country in “The Princess Diaries”

4 Corp. money

manager 5 Dominant wolf in a

pack

6 Fruit-filled pastry 7 Give a thwack 8 What a best friend from camp might become 9 Hullabaloo

10 Rock climber’s

notch

11 Promising romantic

encounter

12 Clean air org. 14 Thesaurus entry:

Abbr.

18 Layer of coal 22 Wide-open

grassland

25 Title for Julie Andrews or Maggie Smith 27 ___ chic (fashion

style)

28 Cinco menos tres 30 Pickle, to a Brit 31 Shawarma holders 32 Guinness of “Star

Wars” 35 Grasshoppe­rs’ foes in “A Bug’s Life”

38 General feeling 39 “Hard pass” 40 Word in the name of many design colleges

41 “So adorbs!” 42 One getting bent out of shape at work?

45 Where to ride ATVs

and dirt bikes 46 Simone Biles’s

squad

47 Length from fingertip to fingertip, perhaps 49 Reason to carry an

inhaler

51 Used, as a doorbell 53 Tangle

57 Hillsboro ___, minor-league baseball team with a mascot named Barley

58 Opera solo 60 Fearsome Middleeart­h creature 61 Do some snooping 62 Pup : otter :: ___ :

bear

63 Permit