The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Stitches
5 Old workplace sitcom with Danny DeVito as a dispatcher
9 Flashy effect
14 Honolulu’s island
15 “Terrible” Russian despot 16 Many a New Year’s resolution prescribes getting into it 17 Not strict adherence to
what really happened, say 20 Convenience at a business that doesn’t take credit cards
21 Confirmed the flavor of 22 Biblical garden
23 Surefire winner 25 Bewhiskered river swimmer 27 Touched down
29 “Be that as it may ...” 33 When a fresh factory crew
arrives
38 Singer Yoko
39 Elusive Tupperware components, often
40 Air quality watchdog created by the Nixon admin. 41 Norway’s capital
42 Web address
43 Archipelago forming the southernmost part of the continental U. S.
47 Gloomy pal of
Winnie- the- Pooh 49 Auditioner’s goal 50 Newborn horses
53 Run for a long football pass 57 Singer Edith known as
“The Little Sparrow” 60 Disappear
62 “Despicable Me” character
voiced by Steve Carell 63 Member of an NFL team transplanted to Los Angeles in 2017
66 “Could you, would you,
with ___?” ( Dr. Seuss line) 67 Black- and- white Nabisco cookie
68 Medics
69 Annual awards ... like the one
actor Shalhoub won in 2018 70 Fret ( over)
71 Poker buy- in
DOWN
1 Fizzy drinks
2 Our planet
3 Company that makes
Frisbees
4 Redundant word in
front of “total”
5 Passenger ship in a
1912 calamity
6 Hertz rival
7 Hobbyist’s knife brand 8 Cove
9 PC panic button
10 Upbeat
11 Touch down
12 Church recess
13 Someone who is not yet 20 18 Leaning
19 Canine collar dangler 24 Lummoxes
26 WSW’s opposite
28 Letter you don’t pronounce
in “jeopardy” and “leopard”
30 Garden waterer
31 “It’s ___ a matter of time” 32 Pursues romantically 33 Swivel around
34 Add to the payroll 35 Without really thinking 36 Mo. for fools and showers 37 Hair removal cream brand 41 Approved
43 To and ___
44 Order to party crashers 45 Annual Westminster event 46 Hawaiian greeting
48 Time of lackluster
performance
51 Largest city and former
capital of Nigeria 52 Derisive laugh sound 54 Prod
55 Standing upright
56 Where the endings of 17-, 33-, 43- and 63- Across are often found
57 Exam for sophs. or jrs. 58 “Othello” villain
59 In a little while
61 Drink that can cause
brain freeze
64 “___ never too late to learn”
65 Abbr. on old vitamin bottles