NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Meet the Press”

host Chuck

5 Trippy drug

8 Iraqi city whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS 13 Dumpster emanation 14 Berry for a purple smoothie

16 Silly prank

17 Watch, as the bar 18 “Nonsense!”

20 Best

22 Home to the N.B.A.’s Heat

23 Flier from flower to flower

24 Shady places 27 Covering of a corn ear 29 Boneless cut named for a New York restaurant

34 Saucer in the

sky, for short

35 ___ Alto, Calif. 36 Carrying a gun

38 Very off-color

40 Some showy blossoms,

informally

43 City north of

Carson City 44 Samples

46 “Later!”

48 180° from SSW

49 Jet that evades

radar detection

53 The biblical wise men,

by tradition 54 Slobbers

55 Corner PC key 58 Steer clear of

61 Sup

62 Hilton hotel chain … or what 18-, 29- and 49-Across each have 65 Actress Perlman of “Cheers”

68 National Geographic has a new one every month

69 Spot for a flowerpot 70 “Nuts!” 71 Sweetness, sourness or bitterness 72 Kim, to Khloé Kardashian, for short 73 “Don’t go!”

DOWN

1 Wee one

2 Verse dedicated to someone 3 Snarky comment after “This is your big chance” 4 Archenemy of the Fantastic Four 5 Place for experimenting 6 Run a con on 7 Limp watch painter

8 Server at a coffeehouse 9 “What else?” 10 Random guess 11 Get up 12 Painful throb 15 Boise’s state 19 Birds on some Australian coins 21 Item held by an actor 24 18+ ticket category 25 Alludes (to) 26 Glitch 28 Deborah of

“The King and I” 30 Down with a bug 31 Cheap section

in a plane

32 “So true!”

33 Dog shelter

37 Active types

39 Bug spray component 41 “What’s the ___?” (“Who cares?”) 42 Expressed

45 Brand that “nobody

doesn’t like” 47 Folklore baddie 50 Performing now 51 Honeybunch 52 Squirrels away 55 Polish, as prose 56 Baseball’s “Slammin’ Sammy”

57 Use four-letter words 59 State flower of Tennessee

60 Place to order

a ham on rye 63 “However …” 64 Golfer Ernie

66 Time in history 67 “___ takers?”