N.Y.TimesCrosswordPuzzle
Across
1 “Make it snappy!”
5 Metal for a blacksmith
9 “Well, shucks!”
14 Bug bite annoyance
15 Put money in the bank
16 Emotional states
17 What the suffix “-er” may mean
18 Entree served in a bowl 19 “Rainbow” fish
20 *British publishing house founded in 1935
23 Cookie with “Stuf” inside
24 Lover boys
27 Reverse of “It is I”
30 Abbr. meaning “Be wary of looking at this in the office”
33 Having the means
34 Numbered classical pieces
36 “I gotta decline”
37 In one’s birthday suit
38 Sea: Fr.
39 *Certain ice cream or soap product
42 Cambridge sch. that sends out acceptance letters on Pi Day
43 Singer Paul with the memoir “My Way”
45 Produce whoppers
46 Soy-based protein source
48 Went kaput, as a battery
49 Fashion legend Wang
51 Hermann who wrote philosophical fiction
52 Impede the progress of
54 Wander
56 Subject of “the talk” about sex … or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues
61 Habitat’s flora and fauna
63 Discontinued Apple music player
64 Midday rests 66 What a score of
70 or less signifies on a common standardized test 67 Spill the beans 68 Lumberjack’s target
69 Prefix with media or cultural
70 Spiral down the sink, say
71 A single time
Down
1 Asset in playing Whac-A-Mole
2 “I can’t take it any longer!”
3 Farm measure
4 Minors who look to be headed to the majors
5 Magazine installment
6 Mete out
7 Kitchen fixture
8 Inexperienced gamer, informally
9 Playground retort
10 One who makes his living with his hands
11 *Bodily response to something eerie
12 End of a school’s URL
13 Winter clock setting in N.Y.C.
21 Trait of the fabled fisherman’s wife
22 “Alternatively …???”
25 Songs from the ‘60s and ‘70s, say
26 Be quietly furious
27 Wanderers
28 Order to a birthday child
29 *Thanksgiving football game
31 Contemptuous expression
32 “Mahvelous!”
35 Figured out, as a mystery
40 Compete (for)
41 Goal of an intervention, maybe
44 “Enough denying!”
47 Token of past times
50 Actor Schwarzenegger
53 Baghdad citizen
55 “As ironic as it sounds …” 57 Place for a construction project
58 Mimicked
59 Make, as money
60 Display size or
camera res, e.g.
61 Antiracist movement since 2013, in brief
62 Letters acknowledging debt
65 “‘I ___,’ said the blind man, as he picked up a hammer and saw”