The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Potato, informally
5 Desert succulent
10 Net material
14 … approximately
15 ___ Heights (Syria/Israel
border area)
16 Reverberation
17 “So, this red thing, Mom?
This is not good.”
19 Ending with church or party 20 Wild time at the mall 21 Assesses visually
23 Lounge around
26 Amend a tax return, perhaps 27 “The French one is my favorite. Wait, no, the pretzel one.”
32 Lamb’s mother
33 Gaze intently
34 Get out of ___
(leave town)
38 Boring
40 Mexican marinade made with
chili pepper
42 Sonnet or ode
43 Request from
45 Blissful spots
47 Printer malfunction
48 “Eww, mollusks … I don’t know, didn’t this make me sick last time?”
51 Actress Meryl with nine
Golden Globe Awards 54 “Buona ___” (Italian
greeting)
55 Render impossible
58 Fumble (for)
62 It’s a crime to lie under it 63 “Wow, Mom, this is like at a restaurant! Dibs on the chocolate pudding!” 66 Garfield’s canine pal 67 Energy giant synonymous
with corporate scandal 68 “I get it now” 69 Ecosystem built by corals 70 Seat at a counter
71 Has an evening meal
DOWN
1 Weeps loudly
2 Get ready for a test, say 3 ___ name and password 4 “Ooh, spill the tea!”
5 “___ before beauty” 6 Republicans, for short
7 ___ vera
8 Change into different forms 9 Walks in
10 Epic failure
11 Culprit in some food
poisoning cases
12 Conch, e.g.
13 Animal in a stable
18 Rises up on its hind legs, as
a 13-Down
22 Item strung on
a necklace
24 Actress Catherine ___-Jones 25 Manages to elude
27 Singer McEntire
28 You can’t say they won’t give
a hoot! 29 Reveal, as confidential
information
30 Gradually wear away, as soil 31 Rises up in protest
35 Training place for martial arts 36 One of 10 on a 10-speed 37 Award won multiple times by “Modern Family” and “All in the Family”
39 Popular meal kit company (or the mother of the food critic featured in this puzzle?) 41 “You can count ___”
44 Gas or coal
46 Twilled fabric for suits
49 Sea foams
50 Former Philippine president
Ferdinand
51 Scent of an animal 52 Exchange
53 Fix, as a knot
56 Journey’s “___ Stop
Believin’”
57 $ : dollar :: € : ___ 59 Honolulu’s home
60 Sound of sitting down heavily 61 Fraternal order
64 Phillipa ___, Tony nominee
for “Hamilton”
65 NBC sketch show, in brief