The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Criticize, in slang
4 Something computers cannot
write to or erase
9 Bottomless pit
14 “We ___ the World”
15 Nice smell
16 Like some handwriting … or
tipplers
17 Up to, informally
18 Traveled in the front passenger
seat
20 ___ at the wheel
22 Lye, chemically
23 Rainbow’s shape
24 “Heavens to ___!”
26 Two- part
28 Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U. S. women’s Olympic gymnastics teams
31 Degs. for C. E. O. s
35 Chap
36 Pants part that might need
patching
37 Join a conference call, say 39 Silly
41 Monopoly properties you can’t
put houses on, in brief
43 End of a lasso
44 Screen ___ Guild
46 Rating between excellent and
fair
48 Cry in a soccer stadium 49 Watermelon part that’s spit
out
50 Main ingredient in a protein shake, maybe
53 Great Lake with the shortest name
55 Mommy’s sister
56 Kind of connection port on a PC
59 Overly fussy, say
61 Hit Broadway musical set
partly in Paris, for short 64 What you might do to pass on an Interstate … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28and 50- Across
67 Letters before an assumed name
68 Sudden forward thrust 69 “___ could’ve told you that!” 70 ___ center
71 Choice words?
72 Believer in Jah, informally 73 Pack animal of Tibet
DOWN
1 Facts and figures
2 Part of the eye
3 Stamp on a milk carton 4 One tending a house during
the owner’s absence
5 Stops by
6 Towel holder
7 Eclipse or a black cat, some say
8 Ancient fortification overlooking the Dead Sea 9 Hi in HI
10 Spam spewer
11 Some quiet exercise 12 Appendage on a cowboy’s boot
13 Align, informally 19 Elvis’s “___ Dog” 21 Always, to a poet
25 Belgian river to the North Sea 27 “Hilarious!,” in a text 28 Assumed name
29 Knight’s weapon
30 Join the flow of traffic 32 Cocktail with tomato juice 33 Seating request on an
airplane
34 Mocking smile
38 World’s largest island nation 40 Lymph ___
42 Tofu bean
45 Hogs
47 Luxurious
51 Doctor, ideally
52 Lbs. and ozs.
54 Wild party, in slang
56 Sch. whose home football games used to include a live bear on the field
57 Avoid 58 Extracurricular activity for a musician
60 Molten flow
62 International furniture chain 63 “The Suite Life of ___ & Cody”
( bygone teen sitcom) 65 Amnesty International, e. g., in
brief
66 Super ___ ( 1990s game
console)