1/9/17 Answer New York Times Crossword

1/9/17

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1D
Picnic pests
ANTS

2D
State that produces the most corn
IOWA

3D
Weather-related stoppage in baseball
RAIN DELAY

4D
Beach footwear
SANDALS

5D
Tool building
SHED

6D
Lipton offering
TEA

7D
Genesis vessel
ARK

8D
Word before congestion or spray
NASAL

9D
Job that might involve watching the kids?
GOATHERD

10D
Variety
ILK

11D
French farewell
ADIEU

12D
Rats!
NERTS!

13D
Use a stencil on
TRACE

18D
Amorous cartoon skunk
PEPE

22D
No thanks
I’LL PASS

25D
President after Nixon
FORD

26D
Like a sheep with all its wool
UNSHORN

27D
Praiseful poem
ODE

28D
Onetime Volvo competitor
SAAB

29D
K, in the NATO alphabet
KILO

30D
According to conventional wisdom …
THEY SAY …

35D
Place to drink lined with TVs
SPORTS BAR

36D
French “to be”
ETRE

37D
So long!
TA-TA!

39D
Joy Adamson book about Elsa the lioness
BORN FREE

40D
Fencing sword
EPEE

43D
Coat and ___
TIE

45D
Decrease
FALL OFF

48D
Soft mineral
TALC

49D
Phony doc
QUACK

50D
Unscrupulous moneylending
USURY

51D
Rarin’ to go
EAGER

52D
Republican pol Haley from South Carolina
NIKKI

56D
Gets 16-Across
AGES

57D
Buffalo’s lake
ERIE

58D
Sour
TART

60D
Prefix with dermis
EPI-

62D
Monsters, ___ (2001 movie)
INC

63D
Word before a maiden name
NEE

1A
Puts on TV or radio
AIRS

5A
Ending on several central Asian country names
STAN

9A
Meanie in “Jack and the Beanstalk”
GIANT

14A
U.S. weather agcy.
NOAA

15A
Zeus’ wife
HERA

16A
___ and wiser
OLDER

17A
1990s TV series about a murder in a town in Washington
TWIN PEAKS

19A
Film director Kurosawa
AKIRA

20A
Made smooth, as wood
SANDED

21A
Part of the conjugation of the French “avoir”
AIT

23A
And others, for short
ETC

24A
Bump fists
DAP

25A
K-K-K-5-5, e.g., in poker
FULL HOUSE

28A
Exhibit in an anatomy class
SKELETON

31A
Guided
LED

32A
Is sick
AILS

33A
Four-baggers: Abbr.
HRS

34A
Like favorite stations on a car radio
PRESET

38A
Pie ___ mode
A LA

39A
Result of failure to comb the hair after sleep, maybe …or a feature of 17-, 25-, 49- or 61-Across?
BED HEAD

41A
School grp.
PTA

42A
Young male viewed as a sex object
BOY TOY

44A
Black ___ (covert doings)
OPS

45A
___ Ticonderoga
FORT

46A
Apr. 15 mail addressee
IRS

47A
Place to pull over on an interstate
REST AREA

49A
English monarch with a “lace” named after her
QUEEN ANNE

53A
___-rock (music genre)
ALT

54A
Land between Can. and Mex.
USA

55A
Inits. at the start of a memo
FYI

56A
You ready?
ALL SET?

59A
Drilling tool
AUGER

61A
Hooded snake
KING COBRA

64A
Thin pancake
CREPE

65A
Place for the banjo in “Oh! Susanna”
KNEE

66A
Exposition
FAIR

67A
N.B.A. star ___ Irving
KYRIE

68A
Freezes, with “over”
ICES

69A
Worry
FRET