NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Skirt bottoms
5 Ticklish Muppet
9 Gets thin on top
14 With: Fr.
15 Banquet
16 Lewis and ___ Expedition 17 GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P. 19 “___ at the Bat”
20 City NW of Detroit
21 “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi,” e.g. 23 Home for Nixon and Reagan: Abbr.
24 “It’s a date!”
26 MADISON + A = “Me, too!” 29 Shakespearean cries 30 Bounding main
32 Pathetic group 33 Mysterious sighting in the Himalayas
35 Some rulings on PolitiFact 38 Mortgage, e.g.
39 FILLMORE + V = Movie buff
42 Like racehorses’ feet
44 Who asks “What can I help you with?” on an iPhone
45 Author Silverstein
49 Soccer blocker
51 President pro ___
53 Lab eggs
54 HARDING + P = Squeezable exercise
tool
57 Actor Snipes of “White Men Can’t
Jump”
59 Approves
60 Famous ___ cookies
62 River of Cologne
63 Uncle Sam’s land, for short 66 COOLIDGE + P = Narc’s four-footed helper
68 Humdingers
69 Panache
70 Pistol sound
71 Hybrid picnic utensil 72 Philosophies
73 First half of a Senate vote DOWN 1 Two-year mark, in a presidential term 2 Wicked look
3 Egoistic demand
4 National Mall, for a presidential inauguration
5 Six-foot bird
6 ___ years (when presidents are elected) 7 Maples formerly married to Donald Trump
8 Like the days of yore
9 Send covertly, as an email
10 Leader in a state roll call: Abbr. 11 Milan opera house
12 “You wish!”
13 Like atria
18 Onetime Pontiac muscle cars
22 What a majority of campaign spending goes toward
25 Dickens’s Little ___
27 Store sign on Presidents’ Day 28 Aromas
31 Gets ready to shoot
34 “Too rich for my blood”
36 QB Manning
37 Separate, as whites from colors 40 “Got it!,” beatnik-style
41 ABC show on weekday mornings, with “The”
42 Absorbs
43 “Star Wars” pilot
46 There’s one to honor presidents every February
47 The slightest amount
48 What hens do
49 Grave robbers
50 Word after many presidents’ names 52 Bygone Ford make, briefly 55 Celebrated Chinese-born architect 56 Diving venues
58 Queen of ___ (visitor of King Solomon, in the Bible)
61 Poetry competition
64 Mink or sable
65 Query
67 Political connections