NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Meet the Press” host Chuck 5 Trippy drug
8 Iraqi city whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS 13 Dumpster emanation
14 Berry for a purple smoothie
16 Silly prank
17 Watch, as the bar 18 “Nonsense!”
20 Best
22 Home to the N.B.A.’s Heat
23 Flier from flower to flower 24 Shady places
27 Covering of a corn ear 29 Boneless cut named for a New York restaurant
34 Saucer in the sky, for short
35 ___ Alto, Calif.
36 Carrying a gun
38 Very off-color
40 Some showy blossoms, informally
43 City north of Carson City 44 Samples
46 “Later!”
48 180° from SSW
49 Jet that evades radar detection 53 The biblical wise men, by tradition 54 Slobbers
55 Corner PC key
58 Steer clear of
61 Sup
62 Hilton hotel chain … or what 18-, 29and 49-Across each have 65 Actress Perlman of “Cheers” 68 National Geographic has a new one every month
69 Spot for a flowerpot
70 “Nuts!”
71 Sweetness, sourness or bitterness 72 Kim, to Khloé Kardashian, for short 73 “Don’t go!”
DOWN
1 Wee one
2 Verse dedicated to someone 3 Snarky comment after “This is your big chance”
4 Archenemy of the Fantastic Four 5 Place for experimenting
6 Run a con on
7 Limp watch painter
8 Server at a coffeehouse
9 “What else?”
10 Random guess
11 Get up
12 Painful throb
15 Boise’s state
19 Birds on some Australian coins 21 Item held by an actor
24 18+ ticket category
25 Alludes (to)
26 Glitch
28 Deborah of “The King and I” 30 Down with a bug
31 Cheap section in a plane
32 “So true!”
33 Dog shelter
37 Active types
39 Bug spray component
41 “What’s the ___?” (“Who cares?”) 42 Expressed
45 Brand that “nobody doesn’t like” 47 Folklore baddie
50 Performing now 51 Honeybunch
52 Squirrels away
55 Polish, as prose
56 Baseball’s “Slammin’ Sammy”
57 Use four-letter words
59 State flower of Tennessee
60 Place to order a ham on rye 63 “However …”
64 Golfer Ernie
66 Time in history
67 “___ takers?”