The New York Times Crossword
Note: To mark the 75th anniversary of the New York Times crossword, we are publishing a series of puzzles co-created by famous people who solve the Times crossword and regular Times puzzle contributors that will appear periodically through the year. This collaboration is by Neil Patrick Harris and David Steinberg.
ACROSS
1 Not so exciting
4 Purchase that can
be deleted
7 Spongy sweet
13 It may contain
gold
14 Sigh of relief
16 Billy
17 Film technique — or a bad thing for it to get?
18 Apex predator of
the ocean
19 Like, so cute!
20 58-Across, notably 23 Road sign animal 24 Elsa’s sister in
“Frozen”
25 Able to run
smoothly, say
29 Apt rhyme of
“squeak”
31 Violator of
YouTube standards 33 Bids “one club,”
say
36 British Invasion band that launched Van Morrison’s career 38 Swig from a flask 39 Part of a magic
show
43 Tip-___ (easy
baskets)
44 All-vegetarian
frozen food brand 45 Like the smiling
eyes of song
46 Approach furtively, with “on”
49 51-Across, e.g.
50 Mexican silver city 51 Paris accord subj. 54 Cartoonist who popularized Uncle Sam
58 Subject of this puzzle (who has himself done a 39-Across)
61 Lily Tomlin’s role in
“All of Me”
64 Latin lover’s love 65 ___ one-eighty 66 Total bore
67 Goes out for a
while?
68 Mess up
69 Asylum seeker,
maybe
70 Org. whose budget is classified
71 Lead-in to horse
or lion
DOWN
1 Portmanteau ride 2 Take out
3 Therefore
4 Individually
5 Old-style hacker
6 Kind of pie
7 Cuisine with
many curries
8 2013 World
Series champs
9 “Success!”
10 Pro
11 Chocolate ___
12 A.P. exam inits.
15 Not punish
just yet
21 Olympics venue 22 They’re shocking 26 Hawaii’s ___ City, on an island of the same name
27 “Cleopatra” and
“Spartacus” 28 What a plane
lacks
30 Mysterious gift? 32 Classic record
label
33 Tribute writer of
sorts
34 Fastest of three
historic ships
35 Geographical name that comes from Old English for “East Saxons” 36 Home of Arizona
State University 37 Part of a stable
diet?
40 ___ Gasol, six-time N.B.A. All-Star
41 Actor Cage,
informally
42 D, in an
emoticon 47 Crushing, as a test 48 One who probably doesn’t get out much
49 Spills
52 Recyclable item 53 Country whose national anthem is “Nashid As-Salaam as-Sultani”
55 Picnic coolers
56 Needing
Bengay, say
57 Reid of Hollywood 59 “r,” in a text
60 Pretoria’s land:
Abbr.
61 Hieroglyphic
symbol
62 Flow stopper
63 “A Farewell to Arms” setting, briefly