NEWYORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 State of irritability 5 Oaf
9 Undercoat of an oil painting 14 Cabernet, e.g. 15 Opening stake 16 “Oh, no, not ___!” 17 Stress between you and your former lover?
19 Carried
20 “In excelsis ___” 21 One of a pair of Old Testament books with female names 23 Place for a baseball
team’s insignia 24 Canada’s Prince ___
Island
26 Thing your former lover said about you?
29 Straight up on a
compass
32 The Beatles’ “___
Leaving Home” 33 Historian’s concern 36 “QB VII” author
Leon
38 Halved
41 Former lover’s text,
e.g.?
44 What alumni do on important anniversaries 45 Write with a chisel
on stone
46 Cold summer treats 47 Something Santa makes (and checks twice)
49 Aptitude 51 Former lovers’
stances in photos? 54 Absolutely
everything
58 See 27-Down 59 Juneau’s home 62 Singer Grande,
informally
63 Busy, as a restroom 66 Current lover who seems suspiciously preoccupied? 68 Chef’s item for
preparing apples 69 Panache
70 Author unknown,
for short
71 Arrogant look 72 Things janitors keep
on rings
73 Wagers
DOWN
1 Neighbor of a Norwegian
2 Vetoed
3 Dragging behind 4 Prop for a golf ball 5 Percussion instrument in a marching band 6 Hop ___ (get to work)
7 Texter’s transition 8 Actress Zellweger 9 Gift of ___
10 Latin “I”
11 Like “Yeah, that’ll
ever happen” 12 Mideast’s ___
Peninsula
13 End of a lunch hour,
maybe 18 Emperor just before the Year of the Four Emperors 22 Prescriptions, for
short
25 Villain in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
27 With 58-Across, 1980s fad that “sprouted”
28 Soup legumes 30 Factual
31 Clues
33 The “p” of b.p.s. 34 It can chop a tree down … and then chop a tree up 35 Three-dimensional
art
37 Ailing
39 Tale of ___ 40 Come-___
(enticements) 42 Target of a cleanup 43 Fraidy-cats 48 Throat soother 50 Money to tide you
over
51 Long stories
52 Arc lamp gas 53 Aerodynamic 55 Augusta’s
home
56 “Believe It ___!” 57 Yield and Right
Turn Only, e.g. 60 Connector of a pair
of wheels
61 Fix, as a dog
64 “Get it?”
65 Go wrong 67 Smidgen