NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Like plans and eggs
5 High-five, e.g.
9 With 68-Across, ulterior motive … or what
21-, 37- and 59-Across each has?
15 Start of a conclusion
16 Rose or Rozelle of sports
17 Get situated
18 “Darn!”
19 Bring in
20 Bestows, in the Bible
21 New York City-born ice cream brand with a Danishsounding name
24 A scarf might cover it
25 Group of nine
26 Frank who directed “It’s a Wonderful Life”
28 Long-running sketch show, in brief
30 Fab Four drummer
31 The Wizard of ___ Park (Edison)
32 Word before angle or awake
33 Next-to-last Greek letter
35 “The Bourne Identity” org.
36 Home to the Taj Mahal
37 1970s auto that shares part of its name with one of Santa’s reindeer
43 The “E” in the mnemonic HOMES
44 “Well, well, well!”
45 Airport screening grp.
46 Wambach in the National Soccer Hall of Fame
47 Bowling alley features
49 Slabs
54 Word often confused with “lay”
55 Macho sorts
56 Perfume ingredient
57 ZZ Top, for one
59 Name for the star on Israel’s flag
61 Sparkly headpieces
63 Certain inebriate
64 Apian abode
65 “Do it again!”
66 “Will do!”
67 Dell competitor
68 See 9-Across
69 Certain bulbs, in brief
70 Loch ___
DOWN
1 Tres ___ cake
2 Unmitigated
3 Lizard with a crest
4 Jackie Robinson, for one
5 Go on a shopping spree
6 Headliner
7 The faintest amount
8 “The Pirates of ___” (Gilbert and Sullivan operetta)
9 Motorcycle, in slang
10 Olympic skater Slutskaya
11 Highmaintenance headliner
12 Dramatic exhalation
13 Double ___ (variety of pun)
14 Math degree?
22 Wyatt and Virgil of the Wild West
23 First-aid equipment
27 Lines on a map 29 Kind of jet
31 Sports star inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2021
32 Third word in many limericks
34 Very muscular, in slang
37 Wiener schnitzel meat
38 Circling, as a satellite
39 Subject of HBO’S
2013 biopic “Behind the Candelabra”
40 Anthem lyricist with a musical name
41 Off-base?
42 Sounded satisfied, say
48 Something that can roar or purr
50 Salt Lake City resident
51 Rookie
52 Cutlery
53 Passover repasts
55 Amass a mass 56 Sailor’s speed
58 ___ Lady (nickname for Margaret Thatcher or the Eiffel Tower)
60 Camelot lady
61 Sri Lankan specialty
62 The moon’s ___ of Tranquillity