The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Dance at a Jewish wedding
5 Chemical that burns
9 Chevrolet muscle car
15 Home of Waikiki Beach
16 Capital of Italia
17 Brought (in), as a fish
18 Vittles
19 “What ___ goes!” (parent’s pronouncement)
20 Task to “run”
21 “Rush Hour” and “21 Jump Street” [Clinton]
24 Handle with ___
25 Friends’ opposite
26 TV deputy of Mayberry [Bush 43]
30 Leave out
34 Kind of port on a computer, in brief
35 Zig or zag
36 Anticipate 38 Dines
40 The Buddha is often depicted meditating under it [Obama]
43 Numerical information
44 Windsurfing locale NE of Honolulu
46 “Superfruit” berry
48 Cousin of “Kapow!”
49 Boxer Spinks who upset Muhammad Ali
50 C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C, e.g. [Biden]
53 Linguist Chomsky 55 Small amounts
56 What the starts of 21-, 26-, 40- and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues
63 Prayer beads
64 Shoe bottom
65 More than magnificent 68 Smitten
69 ___ of Arendelle (Disney queen)
70 Device that makes a TV “smart”
71 Combs to add volume, as a stylist might
72 Not the passive sort
73 Part of a stairway
DOWN
1 Go ___-wild
2 Means of propelling a boat
3 Baked dessert made with tart red stalks (and loads of sugar)
4 University that’s also a color
5 Really dry
6 Cloth used to cover a teapot, to Brits
7 Apple on a desktop 8 Respite from work
9 ___ brûlée (French custard)
10 Spray can mist
11 ___ Griffin Enterprises
12 Jai ___
13 Actress Russo
14 Probability
22 Mosquito repellent ingredient
23 Author Edgar Allan ___
24 Like Friday attire in some offices
26 Play music in the subway, perhaps
27 Rhyming title character who plays the tuba in Cuba, in a Rudy Vallee song
28 Curly hairstyle, for short
29 1099-___ (bankissued tax form)
31 Plenty steamed
32 Stuck, with no way out
33 Sums
36 Orchard fruit
37 Identify
39 ___-mo
41 Howard’s best friend on “The Big Bang Theory”
42 “Green” prefix
45 Rattle
47 “What ___ be done?”
50 Founder of Communist China
51 Made smile
52 Basketball players, quaintly
54 “You got that right!”
56 Legal order
57 Sharpen
58 ___ Verde (locale of
San Juan’s airport)
59 Tourist town in northern New Mexico
60 By oneself
61 “If all ___ fails …”
62 Letter starter
66 Prez with the pooch Heidi
67 Saucer go-with