NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Place underneath one’s seat, say 5 “Dancing Queen” group
9 Barely open, as a door
13 “Ingredient” in molten chocolate cake
14 Decorated parade vehicle
15 Aloe ___
16 Pinnacle
17 Cuban dance
18 Sign for the superstitious 19 Message on a giant foam finger 22 Chem. or biol.
23 ___ of the tongue
24 Falsehood
27 Big jerk
30 “The Addams Family” cousin 32 Prayer endings
34 To the ___ degree
35 1999 rom-com with Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook 39 Release, as a new album
41 Less than 90°, as an angle 42 “Livin’ la ___ Loca” 43 “Anything Goes” song
46 Big California paper, for short
47 Go in
48 Orangutan, e.g. 49 Homophone of 24-Across
50 ___ Fridays
51 Target of a scratch
55 Grp. that might give you a hand on the shoulder?
57 Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes slogan 63 Equestrian’s “Stop!”
65 Turned white
66 ___-pads (hygiene product)
67 Lug along
68 Lesser of two ___
69 Norway’s capital
70 Latch ___ (seize) 71 Not-safe-for-work transmission 72 Some whiskeys
DOWN
1 Cole ___
2 Alternative to glue
3 Above
4 Grows, as the moon
5 Grad
6 Woefully underperforms
7 Site of a biblical tower
8 Company that launched Pong 9 Stratford-upon-___
10 Award-winning sports journalist who went from ESPN to The Atlantic 11 Exist
12 Went for office
14 Signature accessory of Carmen Miranda 20 TV drama with spinoffs set in Los Angeles and New Orleans
21 Down Under gemstone
25 24 hours from now
26 Subject of a will
27 “Still …”
28 Well-muscled
29 “Don’t hesitate to say what you want” 31 Silicon Valley industry
33 Cable channel that brought the world “Beavis and Butt-head”
36 Take to court
37 Intro to boy or girl
38 Animals with spots
40 ___-K (early learning)
44 Lake with a namesake canal 45 Prickly ___ (variety of cactus)
52 Goes tap-tap-tap on a keyboard 53 Yearn for
54 DNA shape
56 Knight’s protection
58 Angel’s headwear
59 Hanukkah coins
60 “No sweat!”
61 Spinning part of a car
62 Spanish uncles
63 “Which person?”
64 ___ Solo of “Star Wars”