NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “All Things Considered” airer
4 Sloth, e.g.
7 Wasn’t a smooth talker?
13 Singer Grande, to fans
14 “___ soon?”
15 Vanquish
16 Price of a horror film?
18 Expand to 800%
19 Big online site for uploading photos and memes
20 Antique
22 Word accompanying a lightning bolt
23 Spanish direction
24 Spanish royal
25 Balance
28 King in the “Jungle Book” films
30 Be quietly angry
32 “The Good ___”
35 Soap opera, e.g.
37 Where It. is found
38 Leave on the cutting room floor
40 This puzzle’s theme
42 Word with science or chocolate
43 Like Antarctica among all the continents
45 Historic enemy of the Iroquois
46 Poorly made
48 YouTube statistics
50 Put an edge on
51 Had the reins
52 On 55 Rearward
57 “Take ___”
58 Separates into groups that don’t communicate 60 “Turandot” composer
63 Shakespeare character who says “I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee”
65 They may come with bows and whistles
66 Handle
67 Indisposed
68 Like the word “truthiness,” by Stephen Colbert
69 Besmirch
70 Follower of red, pink or black
DOWN
1 Blue-skinned race in “Avatar”
2 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
3 Telephones
4 Binaural
5 Accelerator bit 6 Infamy
7 Bird of myth
8 DreamWorks’ first animated film
9 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
10 Person pulling the strings?
11 Fish with tiny scales
12 “Dr.” who co-founded Death Row Records
15 Wyoming town named for a frontiersman
17 Tonkatsu, in Japanese cuisine
21 Bad look
26 “Black Panther” princess/superhero
27 Cut short
29 Loan-sharking
30 Fry in a shallow pan
31 Common street name in the Northeast
32 Language in which “Thank you very much” is “Diolch yn fawr iawn”
33 Where I-15 meets I-86
34 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
36 Inverted
39 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
41 Closest pal
44 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
47 Military alert system
49 Tiny purchase for a plumber
51 ___ Lane
53 Skateboarding maneuver
54 Classic name for a parrot
56 Tucker out
59 Only
60 Chest muscle, for short
61 57-Across, en español
62 Homer’s neighbor
64 Big airport inits.
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