The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 E-cigarette output 6 Something to shift

into or stow 10 Hershey’s Kiss covering

14 Best competitive

effort

15 Coach Reid of the 2020 Super Bowl-winning Chiefs

16 Garnish for a Corona 17 Dance with a kick 18 Strategy used in basketball and football 20 German appliance

brand

22 Maker of tarts and

tortes

23 Wis.-to-Ga. direction 26 Cyclops and others 28 Hog’s heaven 29 “Sunset Boulevard”

actress Gloria

31 Figure in cellphone

plans

33 Exclamation of surprise

35 Touch lovingly 39 Dweller along the

Bering Sea

40 “That’s going to leave

a mark!”

42 Big name in little

trucks

43 Prank involving yanking underwear 45 “Paper Moon” Oscar

winner

47 Major city of west-central Syria

49 Behaves improperly 50 Butter square 53 Turn the dial to a radio

station

55 ___-crab soup

56 What an acrobat

needs to be 58 Buzzards Bay, for one 60 “Water Lilies” painter 62 Birds with effervescent voices 67 Struggling with a

decision 68 Fast-swimming shark 69 Outdo & or a hint to entering four answers in this puzzle

70 Party goodies

71 TV actor/director Ken 72 Kind of language used

by sailors

DOWN

1 Household device with a hose, informally

2 Before now

3 Paella cooker 4 “Srsly?!”

5 20 quires = 1 ___ 6 Stare at, as another’s

eyes

7 ___ Gay (W.W. II

bomber)

8 Either 1 in “1+1” 9 Bread with seeded and unseeded varieties

10 Hartz collar target 11 Sounds from a 28

Across

12 “Good to go here!” 13 Skeptical

19 Profile posting, for

short 21 “Young Frankenstein” character who asks “What hump?” 23 Extremely muscular,

in slang

24 Cut, as lumber

25 “Just be quiet already!”

27 Middle X or O 29 “Major Barbara”

playwright

30 Stuffed to the gills 32 Memory triggers, for

many

34 All the rage

36 He was raised by Cain 37 Diamond-shaped ray 38 Pizzeria in “Do the

Right Thing”

41 Winner of 11 Tonys in

2016

44 Goose : gaggle :: ___ :

mob

46 One of three on an

oyster fork

48 20 Questions category 50 Diplomatic agreements

51 Shining

52 Bejeweled head ornament

54 Long-stemmed mushroom

57 It’s breath-taking 59 Numbers for Noah 61 Jimmy Eat World

music genre 63 Single-stranded genetic molecule

64 Smoked fish

65 Trail mix bit

66 Use a nanny cam, say