The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Volunteer’s offer
5 Fivers
9 Nickname for Cleveland Browns fans
14 Talking in a movie theater, e.g.
15 Withered
16 World Golf Hall-of-Famer Lorena
17 Tome
20 Like Guinness
21 Dandies
22 Editorial override
23 Down Under predator
24 Unsavory sort
26 Court org. — or a former court org.
27 D.C. summer setting
28 Palindromic girl’s name
30 Often 32 Bonny miss
34 Barely manage, with “out” 36 It’s generally not played so much
37 Notable
41 Give a raw deal
44 Have a bug
45 Nashville landmark, familiarly
49 Goon
52 Goose egg
54 Issa of “Insecure”
55 Boston Garden legend Bobby
56 See
51-Down
58 They can carry a tune
60 Crime film genre
62 Noah Webster’s alma mater
63 Star ___
64 Request needed to understand four clues in this puzzle
67 Pass
68 One of Thanos’s foes in the Avengers movies 69 Vet school subj.
70 It may have a big mouth
71 ___ souci (carefree)
72 Popular bait for catching striped bass
Down
1 One who doesn’t believe
2 Subject of Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon”
3 Rubs oil on
4 Label on some packages of jerky
5 Pale wood
6 Sexy, muscular man
7 Gaffe
8 Oozed 9 Bobs and bouffants
10 Doesn’t sit idly by
11 Common riddle ending
12 Spoiled
13 Tear-jerker
18 Cry of surprise
19 “Got it”
25 Banned pollutants
29 Frost relative
31 Childish retort
33 Nos. at the beach 35 Watergate-___
38 ___ and Carla (1960s R&B duo) 39 Tina Fey’s role on
“30 Rock”
40 “The Book of ___” (2010 film) 41 Cadged
42 Wonder Woman, for one
43 Big news regarding extraterrestrials
46 Barbecue griller’s purchase
47 Moderate’s opposite
48 “We totally should!”
50 Terrier type 51 Says
“56-Across!,” for example
53 Card count
57 Kind of shirt
59 Cocoon dwellers
61 Geom. figure
65 N.Y.C. subway letters
66 Hems and haws