The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Jamaican music genre
4 Largest city in Nebraska
9 Pulitzer or Pritzker
14 Approximate weight of a fullgrown walrus 15 Eggs (on)
16 Desert watering hole
17 Author Bradbury
18 Got hitched
20 Some saxes
22 ___-wop
23 Mount ___, active Italian volcano
24 Not require fees to be paid
28 Hashtag that trended in a late2010s movement
29 Covers in goo
33 App that asks “Where to?” on its home screen
35 Office leader
38 Silly
39 Lust or envy
40 Something you might hold to your ear in order to hear the first parts of 18-, 24-, 52- and 62-Across?
42 Fishy bagel topper
43 Dark beer variety
46 Berry in a smoothie bowl
47 Cheerful, as an outlook
48 Prepare to regift, perhaps
50 Story with Achilles
52 Fruity breakfast biscuit
57 Biblical sister of Rachel
60 Debtor’s note
61 Ohio city where Goodyear is headquartered 62 “Saturday Night Live” cast member from 1980 to 1984
66 Chicago airport code
67 Jerry Maguire’s profession in “Jerry Maguire”
68 “Twice-Told ___”
69 G.I. entertainers
70 Opposite of sparse
71 Replay option
72 Stitch up
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1 Drink suckerupper
2 “Bear” in a eucalyptus forest
3 “We’re waiting ...”
4 Very beginning
5 Hosp. procedure
6 Mature, as wine
7 Ibsen’s “___ Gabler”
8 Fur tycoon John Jacob
9 “The Purloined Letter” author
10 Earns and earns and earns
11 “Money ___ everything”
12 National park with the notorious Angels Landing hike
13 “Cómo ___ usted?”
19 Refuses to share
21 Above
25 Corn interiors
26 Kerfuffle
27 Lilly of pharmaceuticals
30 Stinky
31 Biblical son of Seth
32 Smokin’ hot
33 It broke up on Dec. 26, 1991
34 Small snack
36 Jiffy
37 Done in, as a dragon
41 Cheery tune
44 Spiny sea creatures
45 Letter after sigma
47 Set of antlers
49 Strait-laced
51 Words after “because” that don’t really explain
53 Decisive victories
54 Of the ear
55 Viking language
56 Fund, as a university
57 Metal that an alchemist “converts” into gold
58 Slight advantage
59 Port of Yemen
63 Summer in Québec
64 West Bank grp.
65 ___ and haw