N.Y. Times Crossword – Monday, October 16, 2017

By: Jennifer Nutt
Theme: Orca
Difficulty (0-10):  1
Time: 9:00

ACROSS DOWN
1 Fancy neckwear 1 Taj Mahal city
6 Zip your lip!” 2 BBQ side dish
10 Something that might be said with fingers crossed behind the back 3 Substitute terms for sensitive subjects
13 Classroom item that spins 4 Kimono tie
14 Kind of diet replicating that of early humans 5 Afternoon repast
15 Wedding vow 6 Marx brother who never spoke
16 It must be removed before pouring coolant into an engine 7 Stomach trouble
18 Writer Tolstoy 8 Google.com function
19 Bedazzle 9 Partner of skip and jump
20 Lower’s opposite 10 Serving of sole
21 Unkind 11 Like a five-star Yelp review
22 Elizabeth II’s home outside London 12 Frontiersman Daniel
26 Hand drum 14 Bursts, as a balloon
27 Secreted 17 Elizabeth I was the last of them
28 Quaint train amenity 21 Common grad sch. credential
32 Churchill Downs event 23 Joined (with)
36 Ye ___ Shoppe 24 Doctors Without Borders, e.g., in brief
37 Less outgoing 25 What Doctors Without Borders provides
39 Big wind 26 “___ Ha’i” (“South Pacific” song)
40 Documents shown at border checkpoints 28 Long-running PBS film series
42 Feline that doesn’t stray 29 Home of the Cubs, for short
44 Test for seekers of a 21-Down, for short 30 Firebrand Rand
46 Sugary 31 Color in sunsets
47 Where rum and rye may be stored 33 Churchill Downs, e.g.
53 Feverish chills 34 Trombone honk, e.g.
54 Nerve 35 “Are we there ___?”
55 Fink 38 More optimistic
58 ___-de-France 41 Sold-out box-office sign
59 Creature found “swimming” in 16-, 22-, 28-, 42- and 47-Across 43 The “O” of B.Y.O.B.
62 ___ v. Wade 45 Valuable white fur
63 Maze marking next to an arrow 47 Bears’ retreats
64 Show host 48 Probably not a summer home
65 ___ of a gun 49 “Bohemian Rhapsody” band
66 Famed loch 50 Indianapolis team
67 Penguin or T. rex in the modern version of Monopoly 51 Highway tolls may be based on the number of them
52 Casket stand
56 Away from the wind
57 One under 20
59 Documentarian Burns
60 Sopping ___
61 Wellness grp.

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