NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Edited by will shortz
ACROSS
1 Sleeper, e.g.
5 Suddenly spoke (up) 10 Winner’s gesture
15 Apple product since 1998 16 Grassy plain
17 “Here we go again …” 18 Confess one’s true feelings … or Step 1 for solving a jigsaw puzzle? 21 Eventually
22 Dirty money
23 Holiday celebrating the
first day of spring 24 Lowdown
26 Stop texting after a first
date, say
28 Recover after a heartbreak … or Step 2 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
34 Gift of ___
35 Plethora
36 “Again!”
37 N.B.A. star Westbrook, to
fans
39 Long, loose hood
42 Word before loose or tight 43 Div. for the Tampa Bay
Rays
46 Tiny bit
49 Screening org.
50 Look for an ideal partner ... or Step 3 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
54 Eat dirt?
55 Cold-weather cryptid 56 One volt divided by one
ampere
59 Performer’s comment to
the audience
61 Tree that’s a source of salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin 65 Get some perspective … or what you do once you’ve solved a jigsaw puzzle?
68 Animal that wears red pajamas in a popular children’s book 69 Porter alternative 70 Residents of Splitsville? 71 Choose to participate 72 Run into a hitch? 73 “The ___ is silence”: Hamlet
DOWN
1 Something that may be raised on a farm
2 Nation bordering the Arabian Sea
3 Dunaway of “Mommie Dearest”
4 By no means basic
5 Like a frisky puppy 6 Feeling crummy 7 Gloomy atmosphere 8 “Quit it!”
9 Medicinal rinse
10 Elects
11 “This is a library!” 12 “Yeah, right”
13 Vice president in the 1990s
14 Opposite of “da”
19 Some scuba gear
20 Evil clown in a horror film, e.g.
25 Intl. group with members on three continents 27 ___-savvy
28 St. ___ Girl (beer brand) 29 Playwright whose work inspired the Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in 56-Down 30 Number of hole cards in
Texas hold ‘em 31 Relative of
a raccoon
32 Dada pioneer Max 33 Dreamcast console
maker
34 Steffi who achieved a
Golden Slam in 1988 38 “The Sweetest Taboo”
singer, 1985
40 Console whose name
sounds like a pronoun 41 Sluggish
44 N.F.L. Hall-of-famer
Michael
45 Word that might be said
while pointing
47 TV series named secondbest of all time by Rolling Stone, but which never won an Emmy
48 Story used
for storage
51 What skullcap mushrooms aren’t
52 Call back
53 Instagram effect
56 See 29-Down
57 “A little ___?” 58 Charcuterie selection 60 Brand originally called
Froffles
62 Sumptuous and
expensive
63 Minerals ending in -ite,
often
64 Mae who said “To err is human, but it feels divine”
66 “All right, I’ve heard
plenty”
67 Vim