The New York Times crossword puzzle
No. 0518
Across
1 Sleeper, e.g.
5 Suddenly spoke (up)
10 Winner’s gesture
15 Apple product since 1998
16 Grassy plain
17 “Here we go again …”
18 Confess one’s true feelings … or Step 1 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
21 Eventually
22 Dirty money
23 Holiday celebrating the first day of spring
24 Lowdown
26 Stop texting after a first date, say
28 Recover after a heartbreak … or Step 2 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
34 Gift of ___
35 Plethora
36 “Again!”
37 N.B.A. star Westbrook, to fans
39 Long, loose hood
42 Word before loose or tight
43 Div. for the Tampa Bay Rays
46 Tiny bit
49 Screening org.
50 Look for an ideal partner ... or Step 3 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
54 Eat dirt?
55 Cold-weather cryptid
56 One volt divided by one ampere
59 Performer’s comment to the audience
61 Tree that’s a source of salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin
65 Get some perspective … or what you do once you’ve solved a jigsaw puzzle?
68 Animal that wears red pajamas in a popular children’s book
69 Porter alternative
70 Residents of Splitsville?
71 Choose to participate
72 Run into a hitch?
73 “The ___ is silence”: Hamlet
Down
1 Something that may be raised on a farm
2 Nation bordering the Arabian Sea
3 Dunaway of “Mommie Dearest”
4 By no means basic
5 Like a frisky puppy
6 Feeling crummy
7 Gloomy atmosphere
8 “Quit it!”
9 Medicinal rinse
10 Elects
11 “This is a library!”
12 “Yeah, right”
13 Vice president in the 1990s
14 Opposite of “da”
19 Some scuba gear
20 Evil clown in a horror film, e.g.
25 Intl. group with members on three continents
27 ___-savvy
28 St. ___ Girl (beer brand)
29 Playwright whose work inspired the Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in 56-Down
30 Number of hole cards in Texas hold ‘em
31 Relative of a raccoon
32 Dada pioneer Max
33 Dreamcast console maker
34 Steffi who achieved a Golden Slam in 1988
38 “The Sweetest Taboo” singer, 1985
40 Console whose name sounds like a pronoun
41 Sluggish
44 N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Michael
45 Word that might be said while pointing
47 TV series named second-best of all time by Rolling Stone, but which never won an Emmy
48 Story used for storage
51 What skullcap mushrooms aren’t
52 Call back
53 Instagram effect
56 See 29-Down
57 “A little ___?”
58 Charcuterie selection
60 Brand originally called Froffles
62 Sumptuous and expensive
63 Minerals ending in -ite, often
64 Mae who said “To err is human, but it feels divine”
66 “All right, I’ve heard plenty”
67 Vim