The New York Times Crossword
No. 1221
ACROSS
1 Prattle
8 Public square
13 Like records stored for research
15 Popeye’s profession 16 Browser’s start-up point 17 Buses, as tables 18 Freshly
19 Nonsense
21 Second letter after epsilon 23 Tic-tac-toe win 24 Prohibit
25 Worthless talk
31 Fury
32 Financial claim 33 Hanker (for)
37 Neighs : horses :: ___ : sheep 39 Landscaper’s tool
42 Raft for a polar bear
43 =
45 It’s not odd
47 R.N.’s touch 48 Unintelligible jargon
52 “So that’s it!” 55 Itinerary preposition 56 Inexperienced reporter 57 Twaddle
61 Line down the length of a skirt
65 Signing-on info 66 Sudden thought that makes you go “Wow!” 68 Poisons
69 Goes through hurriedly, as during a robbery
70 Jacket alternatives to buttons
71 “Huh?” … or a possible response to 1-, 19-, 25-, 48and 57-Across
DOWN
1 ___ Men, group with the 2000 hit “Who Let the Dogs Out”
2 Scientology founder ___ Hubbard
3 Highest point
4 Where spiders get their information?
5 Way cool
6 Actress Saint of “North by Northwest” 7 Alternative to Prego
8 1957 title role for Frank Sinatra
9 In ___ of (replacing) 10 March goes out like this, as the expression goes 11 “___ the Greek” 12 Pyromaniac’s crime
14 Old NASA moon-landing vehicle
15 Great Dane of cartoons, informally
20 Short hairstyle
22 ___ Aviv, Israel
25 Match up (with) 26 Baghdad’s land 27 Boyfriend
28 Bartlet of “The West Wing” or Clampett of “The Beverly Hillbillies”
29 Figure made by lying in the snow and waving one’s arms 30 Sports official, informally 34 Voice below soprano 35 Chocolate/caramel candy 36 Narrow part of a bottle 38 Droop
40 Christmas ___ (December 24)
41 Mao Zedong was its leader 44 1960s hippie gatherings 46 Big Apple sch.
49 Hawks and doves 50 Rebuke to a dog 51 “Pygmalion” playwright, for short
52 Borders
53 Wears, as clothes 54 Amazon’s virtual assistant 58 Icicles and burning candles both do this
59 ___ Lingus
60 Mineral springs 62 Individually 63 Singer/lyricist Paul 64 Classic computer game set on an island 67 “Gangnam Style” singer