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