N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Message to the office staff
5 Old South American empire
9 Mosquitoes and gnats
14 Grp. that sets oil benchmarks
15 Start a game of cards
16 American living abroad, e.g.
17 Traveled by subway?
20 Mexican mister
21 Seat at the bar
22 ___ v. Wade
23 Magnum ___ (greatest work)
25 Like a recovering hosp. patient, perhaps
27 “Would you call the elevator for me?”
32 Japanese sash
33 Piece of pizza
34 Foreordained 38 Chrissy of “This Is Us”
40 Pet peeves?
42 Wine region of California
43 Dickens’s “___ House”
45 “Naughty” and “nice” things for Santa
47 Letters after nus
48 “Hand me a flashlight”?
51 Admits, as an offense
54 Pouty expression
55 “Well, lookee here!”
56 “Person” that speaks in beeps and boops
60 Home that might melt
63 Use French fries as legal tender?
66 Constellation with a “belt”
67 Good amount of land to build on
68 Golf ball stands
69 Insurance giant
70 Worker paid day by day, maybe
71 Hairstyle that may have a pick
DOWN
1 Cuts the grass
2 Fencing sword
3 Amish cousin
4 Tentacled sea creatures
5 Vow before a judge
6 The latest
7 Jargon
8 Cher, e.g., voicewise
9 Remove, as a sticker
10 Part of an office telephone no.
11 Period of rapid growth
12 It’s a no-no
13 Like some ski slopes and prices
18 Pharmacy offerings
19 Certain pueblo dweller
24 ___evaluation
26 Ending of seven Asian countries’ names
27 Item in a purse
28 Whom Cain slew
29 Drawers for money
30 Nail the test
31 Dog walker’s need
35 Reason some people move to the Cayman Islands
36 More than amazing
37 Dot’s counterpart in Morse code
39 Microwaves
41 Long part of a rose
44 Hurricane that was the subject of 2006’s “When the Levees Broke”
46 Keeping a stiff upper lip
49 Any minute now
50 Should, informally
51 Hot aprèsski beverage
52 Alternative to Chicago’s Midway
53 Put forward, as a theory
57 Dinghy or dory
58 First word of a fairy tale
59 Six years, for a U.S. senator
61 Abbr. on a 0 button
62 ___ buco
64 Sweetie pie
65 Leaf-turning time: Abbr.