The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 “Make it snappy!” 5 Metal for a blacksmith
9 “Well, shucks!”
14 Bug bite annoyance 15 Put money in the bank
16 Emotional states 17 What the suffix “-er” may mean 18 Entree served in a bowl
19 “Rainbow” fish 20 *British publishing house founded in 1935
23 Cookie with “Stuf” inside
24 Lover boys
27 Reverse of “It is I” 30 Abbr. meaning “Be wary of looking at this in the office” 33 Having the means 34 Numbered classical pieces
36 “I gotta decline” 37 In one’s birthday suit
38 Sea: Fr.
39 *Certain ice cream or soap product 42 Cambridge sch. that sends out acceptance letters on Pi Day
43 Singer Paul with the memoir “My Way”
45 Produce whoppers 46 Soy-based protein source
48 Went kaput, as a battery 49 Fashion legend Wang
51 Hermann who wrote philosophical fiction
52 Impede the progress of
54 Wander
56 Subject of “the talk” about sex
… or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues 61 Habitat’s flora and fauna
63 Discontinued Apple music player 64 Midday rests
66 What a score of 70 or less signifies on a common standardized test 67 Spill the beans 68 Lumberjack’s target
69 Prefix with media or cultural
70 Spiral down the sink, say
71 A single time
DOWN
1 Asset in playing Whac-A-Mole 2 “I can’t take it any longer!”
3 Farm measure 4 Minors who look to be headed to the majors
5 Magazine installment
6 Mete out
7 Kitchen fixture 8 Inexperienced gamer, informally 9 Playground retort 10 One who makes his living with his hands
11 *Bodily response to something eerie 12 End of a school’s URL
13 Winter clock setting in N.Y.C. 21 Trait of the fabled fisherman’s wife 22 “Alternatively …???”
25 Songs from the ’60s and ’70s, say 26 Be quietly furious 27 Wanderers
28 Order to a birthday child
29 *Thanksgiving football game 31 Contemptuous expression 32 “Mahvelous!” 35 Figured out, as a mystery
40 Compete (for) 41 Goal of an intervention, maybe
44 “Enough denying!” 47 Token of past times 50 Actor Schwarzenegger 53 Baghdad citizen
55 “As ironic as it sounds …”
57 Place for a construction project
58 Mimicked
59 Make, as money 60 Display size or camera res, e.g. 61 Antiracist movement since 2013, in brief 62 Letters acknowledging debt
65 “’I ___,’ said the blind man, as he picked up a hammer and saw”