The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Flows out, as the tide

5 One who’s always complaining, complaining, complaining

9 Prevent through intimidation 14 Prefix with -naut

15 ___ gras (goose or duck

delicacy)

16 Contents of a .jpeg file 17 Grand Central, for one 20 Host Harvey of “Family Feud” 21 Music genre often labeled

“heavy”

22 Psychedelic substance 23 ___ year (2020 or 2024) 25 Actor/musician whose name

sounds like a drink

27 Santa ___ winds

29 Event of October 1929

35 A long way away

36 Bird symbolizing grace 37 Figure skater Harding 38 Spoiler of a perfect record 40 Skiing or skating

43 Legal wrong

44 Love on the Loire

46 Listening device for an

undercover officer 48 Inconclusive score

49 Pastry with a swirl

52 “I’ve ___ enough out of

you!”

53 Bridge

54 Narrowly defeat, with “out” 56 La ___ (Bolivian capital) 59 “If only!”

62 €€€€€

65 Fire safety technique … or 17-, 29- and 49-Across together

68 Where to sit for the bar? 69 Where baby Moses was

found

70 Go back, when editing 71 “Yum!”

72 Mother Nature’s blanket 73 Ooze

DOWN

1 Elves have big ones,

stereotypically

2 Musical rhythm

3 Star of “Room” and “Captain

Marvel”

4 Do a crossword, say

5 Money manager, in brief 6 Wander about

7 Right-hand person

8 Closest pal

9 Cockney vis-à-vis English 10 An essential worker, for short 11 A sea horse has a prehensile

one

12 Big heads

13 Tear up

18 Printing paper units

19 What you may use when

turning down an invitation 24 Canine “handshake”

offerings

26 Gait for a horse with a buggy 27 Fortune 500 company whose name rhymes, appropriately, with “quack” 28 Tennis champ Osaka 30 Grammy genre since 1988 31 In the public consciousness 32 Terse request to a bartender 33 Damascus is its capital 34 Word repeated in Roger Ebert’s “I ___, ___, ___ This Movie”

39 Phoenix N.B.A. team

41 Poke fun at

42 “You’re right”

45 With haste

47 Came to a close

50 Bryn ___ (women’s college) 51 Liver and ___ (dish) 55 Spiritual guides

56 [Hey! Over here!]

57 Lead-in to boy or girl

58 They have everything from

aardvarks to zebras

60 Whirl

61 Sign of saintliness

63 Ye ___ Shoppe

64 Pigs’ supper

66 What calls the kettle black,

in an expression

67 Fresh