NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Christmastime purchases
5 Vessel that’s 1% full?
10 American ally in W.W. II
14 Twist someone’s words, say?
15 God, to many
16 ___ Minderbinder, lieutenant in “Catch-22”
17 What the answers to the six starred clues follow, as hinted at by 66-Across
19 Old PalmPilot products, in brief 20 Sauce for falafels
21 Lucy’s bandleader husband
23 *Firework that doesn’t work
24 *Crafts site
26 Something said to smell sweet
28 Neighbor of a Montanan
32 Soft ball material
33 Short, for short
34 Poet who wrote “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”
36 *Contemptuous smile
39 1847 novel partly set on a whaler 41 Western New York Iroquois
43 Slightest protest
44 *Military vehicles
46 Upright
48 Windy City rail org.
49 Places to hibernate
51 Chunnel train
53 Page designs
56 *Resistance units
57 *Shakespearean prince
58 Adds (up)
60 Short, for one
64 Opposite of plummet
66 Cry from behind a counter
68 Unadulterated
69 Woman’s name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet
70 She: Sp.
71 Band with the top 10 hits “Lady” and “Babe”
72 Participated in a bee
73 Look (into)
DOWN
1 Ending with song or slug
2 “You have no ___”
3 Worth a great deal
4 Conflict
5 First N.F.L. player on the cover of Sports Illustrated
6 Wine label abbr.
7 Lump
8 He was accompanied by the guard dog Cerberus
9 Biggest-selling newspaper in England
10 First, second or third person
11 Unintended consequence
12 Major European ethnic group
13 What Moses supposes his toeses are, in an old verse
18 Harden
22 Rapper with the 1999 album “The Seventh Deadly Sin”
25 Where Ali won his 1974 world heavyweight title
27 Trim
28 Surname of three baseball brothers
29 Arm
30 Vodka and tomato juice cocktail
31 Like la nuit
35 Prepare to drive
37 Greek salad ingredient
38 Not fight seriously
40 Margarine
42 Economized
45 Flush fastener
47 Like the Vietnamese language
50 Old Beatles rival, with “the”
52 17-time Best Actress nominee
53 Targets for speech therapists
54 Approximately
55 Many an ancient tombstone
59 Annual Austin media event, informally
61 Whodunit, e.g.
62 It may be surrounded by beaches
63 Approximately
65 Alternative to Bowser
67 Word with tongue or twist