NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Like some committees
6 Many a Syrian or Yemeni 10 “Ri-i-i-ight”
14 “Je t’aime” : French
:: “___” : Spanish 15 Does some tech
work
17 Firm fruit
18 With 66-Across, hint for solving this puzzle
20 “Roll doubles to get out of jail” or “You do not talk about Fight Club” 21 Supreme Egyptian
deity
22 Centerpiece of an
agenda
24 Actor George of
“The Goldbergs” 27 Museum curators’
degs. 28 “Lah-di-___!” 31 Some nightclub
performances 33 Sound of impact 36 Vexed
38 Garment patented in 1914 by Mary Phelps Jacob 39 “My alarm didn’t go
off,” for one 41 Young musician 42 Mount Olympus 44 Look good
45 One of the Three
Magi
47 Insurance giant bailed out in 2008
48 Some turban
wearers
49 Hwy. accident respondent
50 Call home
53 Singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills”
54 Gossip
55 Sticky plant stuff 57 As a unit
61 Takes a whiff 65 Thick Japanese noodle 66 Continuation of 18-Across
69 Cuts short 70 Feature of a helmet, maybe
71 Absorb, as information 72 Water buffalo
73 ___ Midas Wolf (Disney’s “Three Little Pigs” antagonist) 74 Senator Joni of Iowa
DOWN
1 Gillette razor name 2 Judge
3 Give birth to
4 Signs of trouble 5 Emend
6 No soft serve 7 Caviar, for example 8 Only human, briefly
9 Wasn’t, then was 10 Actor Elba of “Cats” 11 Engagement ring 12 What is she in France?
13 Abound
16 Went to third, say 19 Story spanning generations
23 Lil ___ (“Old Town
Road” rapper) 25 U.S.A., USB or
U.S.C.
26 Wild West show
rope
28 Word with square
or line
29 Crew top
30 Job bank
32 Symbol of sharp
wit
33 Does not
34 Official beer sponsor of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
35 Group thinking 37 Grossglockner, for
one
40 CBS forensic drama 42 Object of hatewatching, perhaps 43 Giant storybook 46 Not very much 48 Rod used to make
yarn
51 1978 movie musical
starring Diana Ross 52 U.N. member until
1991
54 Like a neutron star 56 Not as nasty
57 Part IV
58 Evidence of
expiration
59 Cold Asian desert 60 National flower of
England
62 Cold Spanish
dessert
63 Pelts 64 Lampooned, with
“up”
67 Pan Asian
68 Rock hard