Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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 post-shooting 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 …”

 ?? PUZZLE BY: BRUCE HAIGHT ?? no. 0213
PUZZLE BY: BRUCE HAIGHT no. 0213

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