NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wood strip

5 Circus animal balancing a ball on its nose

9 Cook, as vegetables

14 Farmland measure

15 ___ Major (the Big Dipper)

16 Issue to discuss

17 Former CNN anchor with a true-crime series on the Investigation Discovery channel

19 Apple tablets

20 Shrimp dish

21 On the ocean

23 German article

24 Places where kids can feed goats and sheep

30 College entrance exams

32 “Approximately speaking”

33 Obsolescent TV hookup

34 Annoying

37 Round trips?

40 Classic Nintendo character named after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife

43 Like Mr. Spock’s ears

44 Failed epically

45 Hoppy quaff, in brief

46 Body part that a Manx cat lacks

48 Western lily

52 Warsaw currency

57 Neighbor of Syria: Abbr.

58 ___ (the Jet) Walker, Basketball Hall of Famer

59 Long-haired, pot-smoking 1960s stereotype

61 Eyelashes

64 So simple ... like 17-, 24-, 40- and 52-Across?

67 Ballpark purchase in a bun

68 Study, study, study

69 Tennis great Arthur

70 Overhang

71 Eyelid affliction

72 Warty fly-catcher

DOWN

1 Unwanted gaps

2 Thorny tree

3 School skipper

4 Captain’s post

5 “The World of ___ Wong”

6 Timeline segment

7 Wood for a baseball bat

8 Hawaiian porches

9 Larsson who wrote the “Millennium” trilogy

10 November birthstone

11 Smog-monitoring org.

12 Lend a hand

13 Ones making introductions, in brief

18 TikTok, Instagram or Google’s Find My Device

22 Kind of alarm often activated in the morning

25 Puff from a pipe or cigarette

26 It’s hoisted on a brig in high winds

27 “Ars Amatoria” poet

28 Twice tetra

29 Many takers of

30-Across: Abbr.

31 Whirl or twirl

35 Sinus doc

36 Grim Reaper’s implement

38 Big retailer of outdoor gear

39 Three-ingredient sandwiches, for short

40 Law officers, in slang

41 Iranian money

42 Normandy battle site in WWII

43 Backup singer for Gladys Knight

47 Montezuma’s people

49 Only major Texas city on Mountain Time

50 Performer in a kimono

51 Did as directed

53 Sweet cake topper

54 Malted, e.g.

55 Spice whose name consists of two consecutive pronouns

56 Bark like a lap dog

60 Fuel from a bog

61 North-of-the-border sports org.

62 Fury

63 Young fellow

65 Good name for a museum curator?

66 “___ what?”

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