N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Items purportedly burned outside the Miss America Pageant in 1968
5 Prefix that makes a pseudoscience when paired with 44-Down 11 Quatrain rhyme scheme
15 Fancy fabric 16 Embryo's
home
17 Barbershop
job
18 Tiptop
19 Jim Sheridan gives Daniel Day-Lewis nothing to work with in this Irish dramedy (1989)
21 Photographer Goldin
22 Stop
up 23 Rapper Megan ___ Stallion
24 Letters seen on some tote bags
25 Rian Johnson helms this snoozer of a whodunit starring Daniel Craig (2019)
28 Thorny tree 30 Adorable one 31 It made the
peseta passé 34 Have in
inventory 35 Handy sorts 37 Fey of “30
Rock”
39 Follower of
smart or bad 40 Elia Kazan bungles this John Steinbeck novel adaptation
(1955)
43 Hit the slopes 45 Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys
46 Foe of Austin Powers 50 Nice
dinnerware 52 Tavern
offerings
54 Assemble
55 Korean alphabet system
57 Anne
Fletcher misses the mark with this first film in a dance franchise (2006)
59 1950s White House nickname
60 Word with
luck or waiter 63 Nonkosher
sandwich
64 Captain's
record
65 Led astray … or like the films at 19-, 25-, 40- and 57-Across? 68 Muppet with a big orange nose 69 Victorian 70 Make hard to read, in a way 71 Egyptian cross
72 Lip
73 Cleaning tool 74 Online crafts shop
DOWN
1 Item needed for burning, once
2 Indigenous people of Easter Island
3 Pool or fitness center, for a hotel
4 Census info 5 Mountain
lions
6 Frustrate
7 “___ out!”
(ump's cry)
8 Lit ___
9 Jackman of
“X-Men”
10 ___ Jackson, a.k.a. Ice Cube
11 D.O.J. agency 12 Winners of Super Bowl 50
13 “Frida” and “Selena,” e.g.
14 Operator of the California Zephyr
20 Gumshoes 22 Big name in
tractors
26 For your ___
pleasure
27 Almond
extract, e.g. 29 Finished
32 Big guns
33 Unnamed
person
36 Job app ID
38 Recipe
instruction 41 Gossip, in
slang
42 Lose one's
cool 43 “Hips Don't Lie” singer, 2006
44 See 5-Across 47 Word that fills both parts of the Shakespeare quote “These ___ delights have ___ ends”
48 Inventor's
happy cry
49 Protracted
50 Subjects for
Jane Goodall 51 BMW
competitor 53 Monk known as the “Father of English History”
56 Baited
58 Respected
tribe member 61 Handout from a maître d'
62 Secretly loops in, in a way
66 Private Instagram exchanges, briefly
67 Tater ___
68 Hon