NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Buds
5 ___ Empire, aka the Realm of the Four Parts
9 Word with bar or bowl
14 Pizazz
15 Cup-and-saucer luncheons
16 Hot apple pie has one
17 Start of a punny quip with two correct answers
20 Step up or down
21 Phnom ___
22 Oversight
25 Aloof with
30 Peter Sarsgaard’s role in 2016’s “Jackie,” for short
33 Part 2 of the quip
34 Traveled to an island, in a way
35 Children’s author Carle
37 Squid predator
39 Wanting no more, say
40 Part 3 of the quip
43 Disoriented
44 Cry at the end of a big job
45 Files a petition 46 Continue with
48 Part 4 of the quip
50 Lunar New Year
51 Play around
52 Philippine coins
54 Drop a line?
56 Devise, as a plot
60 End of the quip
66 Where shampoo was invented
67 Home of
66-Across 68 Stumble
69 ___ footage
70 Many a driver’s ed enrollee
71 Regarding
DOWN
1 Writes
2 Slews
3 Tibetan spiritual leader
4 Epitome of slowness
5 Cousin ___ (“The Addams Family” member)
6 Agatha Christie ___ Miller 7 ___ diem
8 Arthur ___, 1975 Wimbledon winner
9 Woodcutter’s prop
10 Spot for many a “mom” tattoo
11 Singer Rawls
12 Theater chain or cable channel
13 Dit’s counterpart
18 Aid in busing
19 Back in the day
23 Fictional character who dreams about Heffalumps
24 Positive response to “Agree?”
26 Some exams
27 Skedaddled
28 Conical shelter
29 Most unusual
30 Meal
31 Tutti-___
32 “___ Cousins” (1964 Elvis film)
34 ___ Mae (mortgage company)
36 “10-4!” 38 Head to the office?
41 Come under fire, literally or figuratively
42 Ones ordering lab tests?
47 Heroine Prior of the “Divergent” series
49 London’s ___ Square
52 Terrible twos, e.g.
53 Ed Asner role in 2003’s “Elf”
55 “Right now!”
57 Rips [five letters]
58 Lit ___
59 Shot, for short
60 Certain sib
61 “Explosive” cable channel
62 The groom is usually the first to say it
63 New driver’s acquisition: Abbr.
64 Something dispensed with in “business casual”
65 Actor McShane