NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Helps
5 ___-size model
9 Things
14 Licentious man
15 Paying close attention
16 ___ congestion (cold symptom) 17 Small, cute residence?
19 Bygone Toyota sports car
20 Music with conga drums
21 500 sheets of paper
23 Moral toughness
24 Device for killing mosquitoes? 27 Annie who was nicknamed “Little Sure Shot”
31 Like a well-worn dirt road 32 Pouring into a shot glass, e.g.? 36 Come to earth
37 Fair-hiring inits.
38 Stars and ___ (Confederate flag) 42 Relatives of slack jaws?
46 Delilah was his undoing
50 “Stop joshin’ me!”
51 What wakes everyone up in the morning at the duck pond?
55 Sch. for future admirals
56 Like books and tea leaves
57 Host at a roast
62 “Ad ___ per aspera” (Kansas’ motto) 64 Archenemy of Bugs Bunny … who might say things like 17-, 24-, 32-, 42- and 51-Across
66 Wail of an ambulance
67 Den
68 Not ___ deal
69 Having an exhilarating effect
70 Trig function
71 Leave completely filled
DOWN
1 Counterpart of sciences 2 Des Moines’s home 3 Fight at 20 paces, say 4 Lays eyes on
5 Expert 6 Advice-giving “Dr.” of radio 7 Surprise victory
8 Sauna feature
9 Shoo-___ (overwhelming favorites) 10 Instructed
11 ___ de corps
12 Jarhead
13 On the schedule
18 Goalie Dominik with 16 seasons in the N.H.L.
22 Man’s nickname that’s just wonderful?
25 Letter before zee
26 Signal from offstage
27 ___ exams (tests at the end of a student’s fifth year at Hogwarts) 28 “Eureka!”
29 Family relations
30 “Acid”
33 Wood for archery bows
34 One of the Stooges
35 U.K. lexicon
38 Software problem
39 From ___ Z
40 Letter before sigma
41 Fig. on an application
42 Stir-fry vessel
43 ___ about (approximately) 44 Gaping opening
45 Proprietor
46 Racket sport 47 Sydneysider, for one
48 Words said over and over 49 Chicken
52 Believes
53 ___ Lama
54 PC network overseer
58 Degs. for creative types 59 Country with which the U.S. re-established diplomatic relations in 2015
60 Toolbar heading
61 Narrow advantage
63 “___ last words?”
65 Before, to poets