The New York Times

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0503

ACROSS

1 Lines at the

cinema?

7 Trim, as text

11 What a winner

takes, it’s said

14 ___ Prize (satirical scientific award since 1991)

16 Seaweed around

sushi

17 Oolong, e.g.

18 Mix at a mixer, say

21 Annual video game competition, for short

22 Event first televised in 1953, with “the”

23 Finishes

24 S.U.V. alternative

26 Hoppy brew

27 Gobbled up

29 Texter’s “Can you

believe it?!”

30 Metaphor for lies, in a Walter Scott poem

35 Pinnacle

37 Took without

asking

38 One day ___ time

39 & 43 Historical period found in each set of circled letters

45 Long, long time

46 Add up to

49 Bearded beasts

50 Fit perfectly

53 The first “O” of O.O.O.

Fled 55 Cube root of 1,000

56 Intel-gathering

mission

59 Opening with

leaks?

62 Feature of a

deerstalker

64 Baton Rouge sch.

65 Surviving, but just

barely

69 A braggart has a

big one

70 Opposite of “for

here”

71 Humble response to “How do you do it?”

72 “Unbelievable!”

73 Site of a fabled

gift horse

74 Snags

DOWN

1 Coins that are 1.35

mm thick

2 “Go ahead, tell me

the answer”

3 Latin phrase

before a year

4 Yule ___ (Christmas confection)

5 Like kiwis and plum tomatoes, by shape

6 Astonished

exclamations

7 Competition

participant

8 Homer Simpson’s

signature cries

9 Vexation

10 The first “O” of

O-O-O 11 Gazillions

12 NSFW, probably

13 Young chaps

15 Aboveboard

19 Many California

wines

20 ___ Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic

25 “Couldn’t have

said it any better”

27 Partner

28 “Smells Like ___ Spirit” (Nirvana song)

31 Divine Father

32 Needed further

explanation

33 Shakespearean

words to a traitor

34 Howls at the moon

35 Terrific, in slang

36 With 52-Down, 39-Across leader from 1949 to 1976

40 Singer James

41 In the near future 42 Greek vowel

44 Feverish symptom

47 “Good going!”

48 Suspicious (of)

51 Class with angles,

for short

52 See 36-Down

53 Batman or Harry

Potter, e.g.

57 Tributary of the

Missouri River

58 Unclothed figures

59 “I’m glad that’s

over!”

60 Jafar’s parrot in

“Aladdin”

61 Have memorized

62 Breakfast brand

63 Green dispensers

66 Cousin ___ (“The Addams Family” character)

67 Neither’s partner

68 Basis for some

vaccines