The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS 1 Sleeper, e.g.
5 Suddenly spoke (up) 10 Winner’s gesture
15 Apple product since 1998 16 Grassy plain
17 “Here we go again …” 18 Confess one’s true feelings … or Step 1 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
21 Eventually
22 Dirty money
23 Holiday celebrating the first day
of spring
24 Lowdown
26 Stop texting after a first date,
say
28 Recover after a heartbreak … or Step 2 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
34 Gift of ___
35 Plethora
36 “Again!”
37 N.B.A. star Westbrook, to fans 39 Long, loose hood
42 Word before loose or tight 43 Div. for the Tampa Bay Rays 46 Tiny bit
49 Screening org.
50 Look for an ideal partner ... or Step 3 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?
54 Eat dirt?
55 Cold-weather cryptid
56 One volt divided by one ampere 59 Performer’s comment to the
audience
61 Tree that’s a source of salicylic
acid, a precursor to aspirin 65 Get some perspective … or what you do once you’ve solved a jigsaw puzzle?
68 Animal that wears red pajamas
in a popular children’s book 69 Porter alternative 70 Residents of Splitsville? 71 Choose to participate
72 Run into a hitch?
73 “The ___ is silence”: Hamlet
DOWN
1 Something that may be raised
on a farm
2 Nation bordering the Arabian
Sea
3 Dunaway of “Mommie Dearest” 4 By no means basic
5 Like a frisky puppy
6 Feeling crummy
7 Gloomy atmosphere
8 “Quit it!”
9 Medicinal rinse
10 Elects
11 “This is a library!”
12 “Yeah, right”
13 Vice president in the 1990s 14 Opposite of “da”
19 Some scuba gear
20 Evil clown in a horror film, e.g. 25 Intl. group with members on
three continents
27 ___-savvy
28 St. ___ Girl (beer brand) 29 Playwright whose work inspired the Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in 56-Down
30 Number of hole cards in Texas
hold ‘em 31 Relative of a raccoon
32 Dada pioneer Max 33 Dreamcast console maker 34 Steffi who achieved a Golden
Slam in 1988
38 “The Sweetest Taboo” singer,
1985
40 Console whose name sounds
like a pronoun
41 Sluggish
44 N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Michael 45 Word that might be said while
pointing
47 TV series named second-best of all time by Rolling Stone, but which never won an Emmy 48 Story used for storage
51 What skullcap mushrooms
aren’t
52 Call back
53 Instagram effect
56 See 29-Down
57 “A little ___?”
58 Charcuterie selection
60 Brand originally called Froffles 62 Sumptuous and expensive 63 Minerals ending in -ite, often 64 Mae who said “To err is human,
but it feels divine”
66 “All right, I’ve heard plenty”
67 Vim