new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Unwanted email 5 Series of courses? 10 “Buenos días!” 14 Actress Polo

15 Top Trappist, maybe 16 14-time M.L.B. All-Star,

to fans

17 Beginning, datewise 18 “Yes, that’s my opinion” 20 Like skim milk

22 Takes to the station house

23 Wolf (down) 26 One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills”

27 The “O” of NATO: Abbr. 30 Physics Nobelist Bohr 32 Big rift

36 Intrinsically

38 Lived like a

single guy

40 The “E” of Q.E.D.

41 With 44-Across, Valentine’s Day gift … or a hint to the shaded squares 42 Regarding

43 The Eternal City

44 See 41-Across 45 Knocks

46 Old school

48 North Africa’s ___

Mountains

49 On the down-low 50 Looks to be 52 When to expect someone, for short 53 Airer of “The Bachelor” and “The Catch” 55 Stonehenge priest 57 Dakota tribe that attacked “The Revenant” trappers 61 Enthusiastic

65 Get fouled up, idiomatically 68 Manual reader 69 Father of Phobos 70 Snicker sound 71 “Encore!”

72 Some hard drinks 73 Does some postshooting film work 74 Reason for a school closing

DOWN

1 Baseball’s Musial 2 100 centavos 3 Elvis’s middle name 4 Irks

5 Tiki bar drink

6 Flow out

7 Fiver

8 The “her” in the lyric “I met her in a club down in old Soho” 9 Excites

10 Try some Valentine’s Day candy? 11 Shipments to smelteries 12 Heading on a poster with a picture of a dog 13 Hubbubs 19 Philosopher Fromm 21 Fashion’s Klein 24 PC start-overs

25 Big source of omega-3 fatty acids

27 Schedule at the Met 28 Keep going in Yahtzee 29 One of 22 for U2 31 Pilot

33 Commercial

success?

34 Poker advice for Sajak? 35 Greek peak, briefly 37 Try some Valentine’s

Day candy, sneakily? 39 Investments with fixed

rates, for short

41 Item under a blouse 47 “Oops, sorry!” 48 Locale of both the 2018 and 2020 Olympics

51 Bags for guys

54 Home of King Minos 56 Bongos, e.g.

57 Lab medium

58 Actor Calhoun 59 “Hmm …” 60 Bedazzled

62 Has the stage 63 Famed “fiddler” 64 Sprouted

66 Sushi fish 67 “Nevertheless …”