The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Propped open, say
5 People of northern Scandinavia
9 Ballerina’s support
14 Output of the Rolling Stones, appropriately
16 Real tearjerker?
17 Bit of pork, but not in a congressional bill
18 Confident gait
19 Pen name
20 Gets old, say
22 Socialize
23 Forever and a day
24 Airline once acquired by Carl Icahn
26 Stuff it!
29 Something that’s red-hot in the kitchen?
33 Upon
34 Shut up
36 Saloon sip
38 Great divide
40 Garlic, in
Guadalajara
41 Slyly derisive
43 Personal quirk 44 Emanates (from)
47 Hot spot for a chef
48 Scaredy-cat 50 Stick in a salad?
52 Mai ___
53 Nut once used as an ingredient in Coke
54 “Whatevs”
56 “Oh, settle down …”
59 N.Y.C.’s ___ Cortlandt Park
62 “Stranger Things” kid
64 What pales in comparison to other carbs?
66 Fitting way to invest in Campbell’s
67 Paramedic, perhaps
68 Test of patience
69 Risked a ticket, say
70 Three feet
Down
1 Many an Omani or Iraqi
2 Musical Mitchell
3 Current choice
4 One of the Big Five film studios of Hollywood’s golden age
5 Romantic hopefuls
6 Narnia lion
7 George Eliot’s “The ___ on the Floss”
8 Beverage that can cause brain freeze
9 Logan Airport code
10 Marvel role for Paul Rudd
11 Nickname for Rihanna
12 Fat/flour mixture
13 Suffix with differ
15 Le Louvre, e.g.
21 Eye affliction
23 Yummly, SideChef and Food Monster
25 Does rite by one’s partner?
26 Treaty
27 Guiding principle 28 Cook in simmering liquid
29 Cuisine with [circled letters], whose ingredients are the answers to the italicized clues
30 Ancient Egyptians referred to it as the “plant of immortality” because of its ability to survive without soil
31 Green
32 Respected figure
35 Adroitness
37 Itsy
39 Sheet mineral
42 City where
29-Down food is popular, informally
45 Largest human organ
46 Moved (over)
49 New York home of Cornell University
51 Cary of “The Princess Bride”
53 Part of a place setting
54 Smartphone button
55 Environmental sci.
57 “Wise” ones
58 Beat into a froth, as cream
59 “___ Las Vegas”
60 Laptop brand
61 Wonk
62 Alternative to mushrooms
63 Place for pie, idiomatically
65 Word after alpha, beta or gamma