The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Chin dimple
6 Lawn care supply
9 Awakens
14 Low-carb “stone age” diet
15 Night before
16 Vodka ___
17 They’re often used with people, but rarely with pets 19 Psychoanalyst Fromm
20 First and only female prime minister of India 22 Poker variety
25 With 8-Down, street with no outlet
26 “___ Enfants Terribles” (Cocteau novel)
27 That, in Spanish 28 Something you might say at a doctor’s office 30 Stationary
32 “Red Cube” sculptor with an eponymous museum in New York
36 Colosseo locale 37 Word after launch or lily
38 Item on a list
42 First M.L.B. player to enter the Meikyukai (a Japanese baseball hall of fame)
47 Justice who died in 2016
50 Chilly air
51 Period, essentially 52 Krazy ___
53 New Deal agcy. 55 Merch stand staple 57 Fashion designer and judge on “Project Runway
All Stars”
61 Tree with papery bark
62 Island nation once home to the dodo 66 Join forces 67 Like-it-or-loathe-it bread piece
68 N.J. town next to Palisades Park 69 Exodus leader
70 See 65-Down
71 See 65-Down
DOWN
1 Two-striper in the Army: Abbr.
2 Golden State team, on scoreboards 3 Chicago trains 4 Stinky
5 Cover for the bed of a pickup truck 6 Highway hauler 7 “Your turn,” on a walkie-talkie
8 See 25-Across 9 Sneakiness 10 Extremely undecided
11 Not going anywhere
12 Embarrassment of ___
13 Crystalline rock 18 TV’s Don Draper, e.g.
21 Dip for chips, informally
22 Prince, for one
23 ___ buco 24 Gardener’s soil 29 Tribe that considers the Grand Canyon its creation place 31 “Puttin’ on the
_ _ _”
33 Knight’s armor 34 Needle-nosed fish 35 Thick soup noodle 39 Its logo is four interlocking circles 40 Popular toffee bar 41 Eartha who played Catwoman
43 Sure things 44 Damage
45 Instrument invented in medieval India 46 Go into a higher gear
47 One who loves to shred some gnar pow
48 Betting setting 49 Classic consoles 54 Songwriter Mann 56 “Take two and ___ right” (old baseball adage)
58 Opéra division 59 Off-the-wall
60 Like cutting and pushing
63 Réunion, for one 64 One-eighty
65 With 70- and 71-Across, agree … and a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s theme