NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Sweet tubers
5 Missouri city, informally
10 Suffix with narc
14 Precious stone that has been found on Mars (fun fact!)
15 Start of a quip attributed to British comedian Ken Dodd
16 Sensei’s teaching
17 Modern lead-in to call
18 Speleologist
19 Leggy wader
20 Part 2 of the quip
23 Pipe bend
24 BBC ___ 25 Bundle up
27 Pricy wristwatch
29 Letters on a lotion bottle
32 Buffalo hockey player
33 1975 Best Musical Tony winner, with “The”
35 “You betcha!”
37 It’s not free of charge
38 Part 3 of the quip
43 Howe’er
44 School of whales
45 Crackerjack
46 “Baloney!”
49 Y feature
51 Just as planned 55 Potential Emmy nominee
57 Academic address ender
59 She-bear, in Baja
60 Part 4 of the quip
64 Become too sweet after a while, say
65 John with 56 Top 40 singles in the U.S.
66 Overly fussy
67 Thomas Edison’s middle name
68 End of the quip
69 Entwined
70 ___ greens
71 Declared on a stack of Bibles
72 1974 C.I.A. parody
Down
1 The New ___ (weekly)
2 Creed of Hollywood
3 Old telephone service provider, informally
4 Sow chow
5 Send to attack
6 River crossed by Westminster Bridge
7 Mud
8 What’s within your range?
9 Otherworldly
10 Algonquian language
11 Locale of many cookie- cutter homes
12 1,049-mile race
13 Pot-scrubbing brand
21 Cause of a bee sting’s sting
22 Reply: Abbr.
26 Implement for confident crossword solvers
28 Source of the milk for pecorino Romano cheese
30 Little person
31 Bank charge
34 Quick turn
36 “Harper Valley ___” (1968 hit)
38 Town in two Dr. Seuss books
39 Kind of offseason baseball “league”
40 Identify on Facebook
41 Jamboree attendee
42 QB Roethlisberger
43 Demolition letters
47 Spend the night in
48 The ___ Ridge Boys (country/ gospel quartet)
50 Many an ex-president’s book
52 Needing quarters, maybe
53 John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter served in it
54 2018 Super Bowl champs
56 Navigation hazards
58 Al ___ (pasta order)
61 A little dense
62 Other, in Acapulco
63 Hems’ partners
64 Where a truck driver sits