NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Vacuum 5 Direction for
snowbirds 10 Foes of Frodo 14 ___ colada 15 Best
16 The Big Easy 17 Mail opening 18 Brunch offering 19 Subj. that includes the study of bubbles?
20 Eat, quaintly 22 Fatty, as tissue 24 Old T-shirt,
maybe 25 Complains,
donkey-style 28 Confronts reality 29 Modern ___ 30 They line the
Champs-Élysées 31 Finish, as a
cake
32 “That’s a bad
idea!”
34 “That __ Then, This Is Now” (1971 S. E. Hinton novel) 35 Solution to some chemistry problems? 36 Start of a
reminiscence 37 Cynthia who played Harriet Tubman in 2019’s “Harriet” 39 Longtime CBS
drama
43 Where to find
“Fresh Air” 45 Identity prefix 46 Wildly
outlandish story 47 Range maker 50 Frenzied 52 Alternative to a
boot
53 Lawn equipment with an engine 54 Hole ___
55 Rite Aid rival 56 Like some questions that will never be answered
58 Be in direct
competition 60 Bergdorf
competitor 61 Saguaros, e.g. 64 They may be
split or loose 66 Frozen treat 67 Words mouthed
to a TV camera 68 Make amends? 69 Frozen treat 70 Give an address 71 D.C. address?
Down
1 Air Force Two
riders
2 Crude
industrialist? 3 Not derived from living matter
4 “It’s a ___!’” 5 Place where everything should have a mate 6 Couple’s word 7 Tribe for which a
state is named 8 Reason for an end zone celebration, for short
9 Did some
gardening 10 Like some
families 11 Ornate
12 Places to hang
hangers
13 Most reasonable 21 “Shark Tank”
airer
23 Highly
debatable 24 Give a makeover 26 A ways away 27 Confident
assertion 33 Home of
Dollywood 35 Moving too
slowly, say 38 Prosecco o
Chianti
40 Item of feline
furniture 41 “Five stars!” 42 Oodles
44 Part of PRNDL 47 College-level H.S. class with scales and intervals 48 Formula 1
locale
49 Rouse 50 Where a trapeze artist performs
51 Co. big 57 Device with
Alexa
59 Tiny pedestals,
of a sort 62 Nashville
awards org. 63 Little one 65 Apt name for a
goulash chef