The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 End of a dorm

name, usually 5 Old-fashioned

“Jeez!” 10 Huggers

14 Cause for an aha 15 On the up and up 16 One of more than 30,000 in Scotland

17 “A Fish Called Wanda” co-star [7,9]

19 Tapered hairstyle 20 Say “I dunno,”

say

21 Wolf (down) 23 Female whitetail,

e.g.

24 Last ___ (final

option)

26 A total blast [8,1] 28 On one side of an

outfield pole 30 Sister brand of

Crest 31 Pre-weekend

outburst 34 Biting remark 37 Ends of mazes 39 “Whew!” 40 Purple Heart honoree, maybe [4,0]

42 Giant in camping

gear

43 Reply to “Nuhuh!”

45 Fully cooked 46 Musician’s

break

47 Pulse painfully 49 Galifianakis of

“Birdman” 51 Eschew scuba

gear, say [3,5] 54 Downside of starting a new career path, perhaps 58 Sluglike secretary in “Monsters, Inc.”

59 Sulky states 61 Sandwich eaten

next to a fire 62 Nano or Touch 64 Some postermaking supplies [2,6]

66 ___ melt 67 Respected person in a tribe 68 Caroler’s tune 69 Conform to 70 Landowners’

documents 71 Posh shindig

DOWN

1 One often seen wearing boots with shorts 2 Singer with the

album “30”

3 ___ Stadium a.k.a.

“Field of Jeans” 4 Idled, as workers 5 Animal facing a moose on Michigan’s flag 6 Comes together

nicely

7 Anti-___ cream 8 Currency of Iraq 9 System that might include a turntable

10 TV E.T. 11 Impromptu signal

to slow down 12 Two-patty burgers introduced in 1997

13 Matte’s lack 18 Ruler during the Great Fire of Rome

22 FX series set in

the Great Plains 25 Brass instrument with the largest mouthpiece 27 East Asian

doctrine 29 Nonkosher

cooking fat 31 “Spare me the

gory details” 32 Venue for meals

with microbrews 33 Acutely focused

and attuned 35 Greek “P” 36 German

automaker Karl 38 Stand no more,

say

40 Tiger on the

green

41 Glean

44 Contents of a vein 46 Like 17-, 26-, 40-, 51- and 64-Across, with respect to the numbers in their clues

48 Oversaw? 50 Playbill heading 51 ___-Lay 52 Common city

name ending 53 Exercise that

works the fingers 55 Hot ___

56 Nerdy “Family

Matters” boy 57 Cybertruck

maker

60 March Madness

datum

63 Word after field

or before dreams 65 “For reals,” in

texts