NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Write
4 Recipe details: Abbr.
8 Popular newspaper puzzle
14 Words of promise
15 Respectful term of address
16 Yoga poses
17 Bother
19 Black out, in a way
20 Accountant
22 Much-overused filler word 23 Smartphones replaced them, for short
24 German wheels
27 “It wasn’t me,” for one
30 Cirque du Soleil performers
34 Rival school of Winchester 35 Activating, as a security system 37 Feature of two lowercase letters of the alphabet
38 Consumer
40 Yellow or gray
41 Dessert made primarily of flour, butter, eggs and sugar
43 K-12 school org. 44 Ring-measuring devices
47 Sign
48 Astronauts’ workplace 50 Comment accompanying a shrug 52 Sierra Club founder John
53 “Let’s go!”
54 Numerical prefix … or, with 62-Across, another name for this puzzle’s key symbol
57 Deadeyes
62 Olympian Jim or Ian 65 Jack-of-all-trades
66 Plow and plant again
67 “Make room for life” sloganeer
68 “Am ___ understand …?”
69 Charm
70 & 71 Symbol used four times in this
puzzle with four different meanings
DOWN
1 A.T.M. necessity 2 Cabinet dept. 3 Gritty genre
4 Mystery novelist Cross 5 Stone-capturing board game 6 Instruments on dashes 7 Hook’s henchman 8 Unsettle
9 Zoning concern 10 Fill-in-the-blanks story
11 ___ B’rith
12 Absence
13 Where the sun rises, in Mexico
18 Not prone
21 More spicy
25 Where to find an average joe?
26 Place to get a rescue animal 27 Far parts of the universe 28 Les ___-Unis
29 Absent from
30 Major biotech company 31 What Rhett Butler didn’t give
32 Arcade item 33 Transcriber
36 Finely honed 39 Alphabet quartet 42 Sheriff’s domain, typically 45 Article of the Constitution that provides for the Supreme Court 46 Mother-and-daughter singers Nina and Lisa 49 Ethically unprincipled 51 Repeated part of the “Camptown Races” refrain 53 R&B singer Khan
54 “Por ___ parte” (Spanish for “on the other hand”) 55 Nobel Prize category: Abbr. 56 Meat substitute
58 ___ Tzu
59 Let out
60 Pro ___
61 Make out, in Manchester 63 Lead-in to K
64 Certain fire dept. employee