The new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 *Leave briefly 6 Follow 10 Colorful freshwater fish
15 Midwest hub 16 Mystical
character 17 Celeb with a good friend named Gayle 18 World leader born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov 19 Hankering 20 Subdued hue 21 Seriously vex 22 *Final say 24 Aromatherapy provider,
perhaps
25 How best to determine consent 27 Coral-based
ecosystems 28 Went the
distance 31 Pioneer in color
TV
32 Start of all Washington, D.C., ZIP codes 35 Contingent of like-minded voters 37 Nation on the
Gulf of Oman 39 Like some
Quad Cities residents 41 *All for one 45 Louvre
Pyramid architect 46 Witty Mort 47 Mulligan
48 ___ Wee Reese 49 Fund-raising group for the G.O.P.
52 Didn’t fail 54 Subs
56 Bit of body ink 57 TV screen type,
for short 60 *Flies
frequently 64 She released
“30” in ’21 66 Broadcast
again 67 Farming
prefix 68 Word with wave and pool
69 “___ luck!” 70 Political commentator Joy
71 Arctic people 72 Get-go 73 Monopoly
holding 74 Punctuation mark missing in “Let’s eat people!” (at least one would hope!) … as well as from the starred clues
DOWN
1 Animals that become different animals when their first letter is changed to an “M”
2 Oodles
3 Fruit often served in ball form
4 “Brava!”
elicitor 5 Busybodies 6 Underhanded
tactics
7 Not manually
operated 8 Bring on 9 Longtime news
anchor Jim 10 “Seeing the other side of the matter …” 11 Blunted blades 12 Cereal “for
kids” 13 Musical form heard in some Bollywood films
14 [Don’t forget
about me!] 23 Fleeting
moment
By Damon Gulczynski
26 Move about 29 Doxycycline
target
30 Some playground attendants 32 Wonderland
twin
33 Pixie stick? 34 Not conned by 35 Minor
anomaly 36 Shiny fabric 38 Spring’s
opposite 40 Brutish sort 42 No-good, backstabbing scoundrel 43 “How bizarre” 44 Disney’s Queen
of Arendelle 50 Pedagogic org. 51 Unfounded
rumor 53 Unchanging 54 State capital in the so-called “Treasure Valley”
55 “Me and
Bobby ___” (posthumous #1 hit for Janis
Joplin) 58 Something
staked 59 Difference
symbol, in math 60 Singer/ songwriter Guthrie 61 Blindingly
bright
62 D.C. nine 63 Buffalo’s
county
65 Pet in the town
of Bedrock