NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Wood strip 5 Circus animal balancing a ball on its nose 9 Cook, as
vegetables 14 Farmland
measure
15 ___ Major (the
Big Dipper) 16 Issue to discuss 17 Former CNN anchor with a true-crime series on the Investigation Discovery channel
19 Apple tablets 20 Shrimp dish
21 On the ocean 23 German article 24 Places where kids can feed goats and sheep 30 College entrance
exams 32 “Approximately
speaking” 33 Obsolescent TV
hookup 34 Annoying 37 Round trips? 40 Classic Nintendo character named after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife 43 Like Mr. Spock’s
ears
44 Failed epically 45 Hoppy quaff, in
brief
46 Body part that a
Manx cat lacks 48 Western lily 52 Warsaw currency 57 Neighbor of Syria:
Abbr.
58 ___ (the Jet) Walker, Basketball Hall-of-Famer 59 Long-haired, pot-smoking 1960s stereotype 61 Eyelashes
64 So simple … like 17-, 24-, 40- and 52-Across? 67 Ballpark purchase
in a bun
68 Study, study,
study
69 Tennis great
Arthur 70 Overhang 71 Eyelid affliction 72 Warty fly-catcher
Down
1 Unwanted gaps 2 Thorny tree 3 School skipper 4 Captain’s post 5 “The World of ___
Wong”
6 Timeline segment 7 Wood for a
baseball bat 8 Hawaiian porches 9 Larsson who wrote the “Millennium” trilogy 10 November
birthstone 11 Smog-monitoring
org.
12 Lend a hand 13 Ones making introductions, in brief 18 TikTok, Instagram or Google’s Find My Device
22 Kind of alarm often activated in the morning 25 Puff from a pipe
or cigarette
26 It’s hoisted on a brig in high winds
27 “Ars Amatoria”
poet
28 Twice tetra29 Many takers of
30-Across: Abbr. 31 Whirl or twirl 35 Sinus doc
36 Grim Reaper’s
implement
38 Big retailer of
outdoor gear 39 Three-ingredient sandwiches, for short
40 Law officers, in
slang
41 Iranian money 42 Normandy battle
site in W.W. II 43 Backup singer for
Gladys Knight 47 Montezuma’s
people
49 Only major Texas city on Mountain Time
50 Performer in a
kimono
51 Did as directed 53 Sweet cake
topper
54 Malted, e.g. 55 Spice whose name consists of two consecutive pronouns
56 Bark like a lap
dog
60 Fuel from a bog 61 North-of-theborder sports org. 62 Fury
63 Young fellow 65 Good name for a
museum curator? 66 “___ what?”