Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
Fuel efficiency
1
letters
They may join in
4
a circle
Big-box hardware
8
chain
“That’s it!”
13
Model Campbell
14
Cricket fields and
16
badminton racket heads, for two Punishes
17
Interrupt ... or
19
what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue
Aptly named ski
20
town in Utah
Stop the clock
21
Compact disc?
23
Hot spot in the
25
afternoon, say
I.C.U. specialists
26
Backed financially
Prep for surgery
31
... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue
Multiple of one?
34
City whose name
36
is Siouan for “good place to dig potatoes”
Primitive kind of
37
diet
Subject of job
41
offer negotiations
They get high
43
twice a day
Actress Munn
44
One of Alcott’s
46
Little Women
Workplace with
48
no commute
Leave ... or what
50
to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue
Constellation next
55
to Ursa Major
Prefix with
56
skeleton
Hagia ___ (World
58
Heritage Site in Istanbul)
Concession stand
59
morsel
One of the pounds
63
in a pound cake Brazenly
64
disregarding
Flail at home
66
plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue
“Heaven forbid!”
68
Pledge drive bags
69
Gold in them thar
70
hills, e.g.
Promise 71
Home to 72 the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas
Retreat
73
DOWN
Sophisticated
1
ladies
Queen Elizabeth’s
2
husband
Prefix with -pod
3
Alex and ___
4
(jewelry brand) Affiliated group
5
of M.C.s, as for Death Row Records
Rum mixer
6
Refine, in a way
7
Plot points?
8
Fallopian tube
9
traveler
Something to
10
sleep on with no springs
Country’s ___
11
Young Band Only four-ninths
12
of it is usually shown: Abbr.
Lands in the
15
ocean
Media journalist
18
David
It’s said to be
22
“the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to
belittle”
Holy Roman
24
emperor beginning in 973
Quickly heat up,
27
in a way
Yellow Pages
28
section after “Sound Systems”
Dramatic tango
30
move
Abstract
32
Expressionist Mark
News inits. since
33
1958
Snag
35
Four-time Hugo
37
Award winner Frederik
Potted
38
ornamental
Prom night
39
booking
Biblical
40
progenitor
“And ___ …”
42
Super-duper
45
Better prepared,
47
perhaps
Just be oneself
49
Sport in which
51
you could use some pointers?
“Great to hear!”
52
Reckon
53
Secure
54
In first place
57
Psychoanalyst
60
Freud, daughter of Sigmund
Marty Feldman’s
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role in “Young Frankenstein”
Big name in Art
62
Deco
N.F.L. threepointers:
64 Abbr. Temperature
65
extreme
Sch. 50
67
miles west of 36-Across