NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Shakespeare, for one
5 Product of Chevron or Shell
8 Many an electoral chart, in brief 13 State that’s said to be “high in the middle”
14 Con’s opposite
15 Take a deep breath
16 Where Army recruits go to start training
18 One placing a phone call 19 Houston-based food service giant 20 Three goals by the same player 22 Actor Wilson
25 Part of a Halloween costume 26 Shexll game
30 Norway’s capital
34 “___ the land of the free …”
35 Prefix with -vore or -scient
36 Made snide verbal attacks 38 Ostentatiously ornamented
40 ___ Arbor, Mich.
42 Shade akin to army green 43 “Finally!”
45 Avocado dip, informally 47 Antidiscrimination inits.
48 What snakes and lizards do periodically with their skin
49 British heavy metal band named for a torture device
52 What trees do in the wind 54 Coordinate, informally
55 All tuckered out
59 Go deeply (into)
63 ___ borealis
64 Game whose tokens have included the starts of 16-, 20-, 26-, 49- and 55-Across 67 Apache and Sioux, for two 68 Beetles, e.g., for short
69 It leads the orchestra in tuning
70 ___ Park, Colo.
71 Word before lion, level or legs 72 Square ones won’t fit into round holes
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1 Short hairstyles
2 Greeting to a “matey”
3 Rivers, in Mexico
4 Company doing business mostly online
5 4.0 is a superb one, in brief
6 Cost an ___ and a leg
7 Student who’s no longer a frosh 8 Cups and quarts
9 Controversial cosmetics ingredient 10 Its capital is Bamako
11 Trump impersonator Baldwin 12 Become more attentive, with “up” 15 Pet collar attachments
17 Some rodeo riders
21 “What ___?” (end of a riddle) 23 Stately tree
24 “99 Red Balloons” singer
26 Some fraternity party getups
27 Actor Ledger
28 Cry made while chest-thumping 29 Rock Starr?
31 Observed secretly
32 Flood blocker
33 Ancient theater
37 Slangy turndown of a request for help 39 Expectant papas
41 Convent residents
44 Bejeweled bands
46 Senator Klobuchar
50 Loaf with seeds
51 Cold treat on a stick
53 Tangle behind a computer, maybe 55 Calendar info
56 “___ is not to reason why …” 57 Stick-to-itiveness
58 License bureaus, for short
60 Part of an ear or brain
61 Certain Youtube posting
62 Seeing things?
65 Be indebted to
66 Secretive government org.