NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Proto-smartphones, in brief
5 It may be flipped in anger, with “the”
9 Companion, in Arabic
14 Performance traditionally accompanied by the ipu heke (double gourd drum)
16 Protein-building acid type
17 Marley of “Marley & Me,” for one
18 Unbending
19 Insomniacs have them
20 —
21 A pelican gulper is a type of one
22 Parts of essential oils
26 It’s a wrap
27 Didn’t win or lose
29 Eye ailments
31 Evian, par exemple
33 Food item that may be candied 36 Blue Angels, e.g.
38 Failing spectacularly
41 —
42 Colonies construct them
45 Anderson Cooper, to Gloria Vanderbilt
46 Network operated by the U.S. Space Force
47 Part of a bar line
49 Get red in the face?
53 What starts with janeiro, in Rio
55 Like mortgagors 58 Actress Hagen with three Tonys
59 Members of a wartime skywatching corps
61 —
63 Frothy order
64 Symbols often accompanying the phrase “Legalize it”
66 Seriously fancy
67 Redacts, as sensitive information (suggested by three of this puzzle’s answers)
68 Feinted on the ice
69 Adam and Eve’s third child
70 Standard Oil offshoot
DOWN
1 Gym
2 Burr, famously
3 Genetic variant
4 Something that’s no good unless it’s closed
5 Blubbers
6 Some safe harbors
7 Electronics company that founded NBC
8 Type of socialite officially discontinued in the U.K. in 1958
9 It’s a wrap
10 Mexican ally
11 Flashy car feature?
12 New member
13 Gym figures, for short
15 Lowdown
23 Flight tracker info
24 Alternative to white
25 Peons
28 Casino next to the Venetian in Vegas
30 2018 sci-fi prequel
32 ___ Enterprise
34 Range on a game box
35 “Are you giving me no choice?”
37 Like Supreme Court hearings, with “en”
38 Shut up
39 For all to see
40 Response to rule-breaking
43 Whole lot
44 Cover some ground?
48 Titular vampire in Anne Rice novels
50 Parts of a Spanish omelet
51 Father-in-law of Helen of Troy
52 Target with a toss
54 Off-the-wall
56 Something that might come up after a big meal?
57 Enterprise voyage
59 Hefty rival 60 Have to have
62 Container whose name is pronounced
with either a long “a” or an “ah”
64 Network supported by “Viewers Like You”
65 ___ Miss of the N.C.A.A.