The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

1 Pit-of-thestomach feeling 5 Fastidious to a fault 9 Wedding walkways 14 Literary heroine Jane 15 Entertainment district in London’s West End

16 Watts of “Mulholland Drive”

17 Seat on a ship 19 Robust brew 20 Get through to 21 Pool of money 23 Start to scream or

shout?

26 Sing like Tom

Waits

28 Phrased

32 “The missing link” 34 Word with raising

or splitting 36 Commercial leadin to Clean 37 Domesticated 38 Fit of wild emotion 40 Natalie Wood’s role in 1961’s “West Side Story” 41 Foundation 42 Capitol Hill

staffers

43 Bet the family

farm, so to speak 45 Instrument found in a post office or grocery

46 Reddit Q&A 47 Major provider of scholarships, in brief

48 Look through a window, say 49 Like bananas and banana slugs 51 Orangish-brown gem 53 Otolaryngologist,

familiarly

54 Make fun of 56 Error’s

counterpart 58 Components of a

rosary

61 More often than

not

66 More than enough 67 We: Fr.

68 Big Ten school 69 Holiday dependent on the lunisolar calendar 70 [Ignore that edit] 71 Train tracks

DOWN

1 With 2-Down, money-saving flight option, often 2 See 1-Down 3 Certain line

segment

4 Hockey feint 5 Receptacle near a

firepit

6 ___ Ark

7 Offering on a

sushi menu 8 Mayor Lightfoot of

Chicago

9 Yet to come 10 Mythological being with a horse’s tail 11 Facilities in

England

12 Prey for a dingo 13 Command that might precede “Shake!”

18 One might have the disclaimer “Professional driver on closed course. Do not attempt.” 22 Dipsticks

23 Erode

24 “Stop! I’ve heard

quite enough!” 25 Formative 27 Science that deals with the phenomenon spelled out by 10 missing letters in this puzzle 29 “Is it worth the

risk?”

30 Do great at

31 ___ collar (iconic Ruth Bader Ginsburg neckwear at the Smithsonian) 33 Part of a coconut that can be shredded 35 Clarification

words for a speller 38 “Freeze!”

39 Along with lentils, one of the two main ingredients in idli

41 Exposed, as a

cover

44 One giving a wakeup call

45 Hyundai Sonata,

for one

48 Certain

ecclesiastic 50 Punch bowl gowith

52 Quibble

55 Some antique

collectibles 57 Princess whose brother is not a prince

58 Meadow call 59 Ambulance letters 60 Well-suited 62 “Kidding!” 63 Father of une

princesse 64 Saddler’s tool 65 ___ Américas