The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

TOMAS SPIERS

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-àvis 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