NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Harsh cries
6 Biblical verb
10 Doorway components 15 Meddlesome sort
16 Playhouse locale, perhaps
17 “___ Mio”
18 Shouted casual greeting 19 Bellyache
20 Actor who won comedy and drama Emmys for the same role
21 “Miss Manners,” for one
22 Pillar
24 Beersheba’s region
25 Ticked off
27 Make shipshape, as a ship
29 “Ain’t gonna happen!”
30 She, in Salerno
31 Jell-O pudding flavor 33 “Curiously strong” mint
36 ___ a soul
38 Like albinism
40 ___-Caps (Nestlé brand) 41 White-haired
44 Winter driving hazard … or a literal hint to four squares in this puzzle 46 Béarnaise ingredient
47 Cone producer
48 Russian river to the Arctic Ocean 49 Close, in a guessing game 51 Spreads outward
53 Wardrobe malfunction
55 Incur cellphone charges, maybe
59 Hit 2002 animated film 60 Headliner
62 Arctic plain
64 Very low-risk investment, familiarly 66 11/11
68 “Que Sera Sera” singer, 1956
69 Film composer Morricone 70 Accountant’s stamp
71 Ancient Greek market
73 One collecting money on the sidewalk? 74 Something to clear up?
75 Spicy cuisine style 76 Novel writing
77 A snifter has a short one
78 Lots of disputin’ from Rasputin?
DOWN
1 What a dowsing rod or a slingshot has 2 Jumper cable connection points 3 They might come in packs
4 Patrol wagon
5 It’s out of this world
6 WWW programming code 7 Waken
8 Group effort
9 Salon shade
10 “Mad Men” femme fatale
11 “Aye,” e.g.
12 Cobra fighter
13 Extorting from
14 Helping hound
23 Like natural gas and carbon monoxide 26 Pianist Cliburn
28 They’re pushed on planes 32 Seacrest of “American Top 40”
34 It might precede a pickup line 35 Frankfurter
37 Up to the task
39 Audio equipment brand
41 Crunch time helper, maybe 42 Comics character who was perpetually 19
43 Involve unwillingly
45 Waterfall
50 Generous, affable sort
52 Counts (on)
54 Weasel word?
56 Quirky sort
57 Dormant volcano near the Turkish/ Iranian border
58 Ancient pyramid builders 61 Snacks served with cerveza 63 Many a Mormon
64 Time’s partner, informally
65 It’s passed on
67 Footnote word
72 Wise ___