THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Perspective
5 Police alert, for short
8 Candy often used in science fair volcanoes
14 Proactiv target
15 Sound that might be heard in a 16-Across
16 It’s for the birds
17 “Sanford and Son” star of 1970s TV
19 High-end shampoo brand 20 General reply?
21 Put one’s foot down
23 Subject of some “management” courses
25 Warning letters next to a link
29 Had in mind
33 Rowed
36 Equal
37 Brand in the pet food aisle 38 Shot blocker?
40 Zealot
42 Grenache, for one
43 BP rival
45 ___ Domini
46 Coastal indentation
47 “The Times They Are a-Changin’” songwriter
48 Big name in vacuum cleaners 49 Branches
51 Hostility, in British slang
53 Collar attachment
56 Cuneiform discovery site
61 Sister chain of Marshalls
64 Beer brand whose logo hints at the answers to 17-, 19-, 38-, 43- and 61-Across
66 Dormmate, e.g.
67 Artist Jean who pioneered in Dadaism
68 Relative of a tangelo
69 Brewers’ fermenting agents
70 Like some humor or spells
71 On the briny
DOWN
1 “Your mileage may ___”
2 Drink brand with a polar bear symbol
3 Objectives
4 Unites
5 ___ squash
6 Curse
7 Prime theater location
8 Oodles of
9 Still
10 U.S. president who becomes the president of future Earth on “Futurama”
11 Burden
12 Sch. in Tulsa
13 Part of GPS: Abbr.
18 Decree
22 Making it big
24 Tourist transports in Venice
26 Fifth-century invaders of England
27 California city whose name is Spanish for “ash tree”
28 “It’s a date!”
29 City 20 miles NW of 27-Down
30 Quack medicine offering
31 Culmination of a challenging H.S. course
32 Manhattan neighborhood next to the East Village
34 Black-hearted
35 Degree of expertise in martial arts
38 West Point team
39 Discovery of Wilhelm Roentgen, which earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901
41 “So what?”
44 Second-largest Arabic-speaking city after Cairo
48 Taj Mahal feature
50 Poetry competitions
52 Hoarse
54 Way out
55 Lines of a plane
57 Light blue
58 Bearskins, maybe
59 River along which
56-Across is located
60 It’s on one side of the Urals
61 Take a shot
62 Average guy
63 Extinct relative of the kiwi
65 Hockey legend Bobby