N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Missing 5 + and –
10 Common baitfish in North American streams
14 Word with express or through
15 ___ of power (common impeachment charge)
16 Superlative
17 Home of Baikal, the world’s deepest lake
18 Relative of a croc
19 Overwhelms, with “down”
20 “You don’t like what I did? I don’t care”
22 Mythical being, oldstyle
24 Desires
25 ___ whole
27 Awesome time
28 Secreted
29 Core features
31 General with a dish named after him
33 What a nod may signify
34 Lover of Cesario in “Twelfth Night”
36 Air Force One V.I.P.
38 Classic party game … or a hint to solving the answers that intersect circles
42 Can’t stomach
43 How Beyoncé was “crazy,” according to a 2003 #1 hit
45 House member with 11+ million Twitter followers, informally
48 Spanish bear
49 Whiz
50 Posed (for)
51 Have a Pavlovian response
53 “90 Day Fiancé” network
55 Moves like molasses
57 Percussion duos?
59 “You can come out now”
61 Common sources of conflict
62 Ancient unit of length
64 Scale amount
66 What matzo doesn’t do
67 Stephen Curry’s birthplace
68 Micro or macro class
69 Docs treating vertigo
70 Years before 2020, informally
71 Tear
DOWN
1 ___ king
2 Goes Christmas caroling
3 Tangy chip accompaniment
4 What a letter needs
5 Summon
6 Power couple from Chicago
7 Garage jobs
8 That: Sp.
9 Manorial worker
10 Brief appearance
11 “We did it!”
12 Foolish
13 Plagues
21 Olympian with eight gold medals in sprinting
23 Relevance of text, in librarian’s lingo
24 “Have I met her?”
26 Tiny bit of progress
30 Homes for rubber duckies
32 Unlikely to crack a smile, say
35 Through
36 Through
37 Cardinal cap insignia
39 It’s a laugh
40 Go down in respect
41 Musical role for Madonna and Patti LuPone
44 Subjects of some conspiracy theories, for short
45 Stick
46 (0,0,0)
47 Not a single person on an awards show?
49 Roll call?
52 Uses a light
scalpel on?
54 Petrol unit
56 Spud
58 “Out, you!”
60 Listings on a train sched.
63 Luau strings
65 Appropriate answer for this spot in the puzzle