The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Prattle
8 Public square
13 Like records stored for research
15 Popeye’s profession
16 Browser’s start-up point
17 Buses, as tables
18 Freshly
19 Nonsense
21 Second letter after epsilon
23 Tic-tac-toe win 24 Prohibit
25 Worthless talk
31 Fury
32 Financial claim
33 Hanker (for)
37 Neighs : horses :: ___ : sheep
39 Landscaper’s tool
42 Raft for a polar bear
43 = 45 It’s not odd
47 R.N.’s touch
48 Unintelligible jargon
52 “So that’s it!”
55 Itinerary preposition
56 Inexperienced reporter
57 Twaddle
61 Line down the length of a skirt
65 Signing-on info
66 Sudden thought that makes you go “Wow!”
68 Poisons
69 Goes through hurriedly, as during a robbery 70 Jacket alternatives to buttons
71 “Huh?” & or a possible response to 1-, 19-, 25-, 48-and 57-Across
DOWN
1 ___ Men, group with the 2000 hit “Who Let the Dogs Out”
2 Scientology founder ___ Hubbard
3 Highest point
4 Where spiders get their information?
5 Way cool
6 Actress Saint of “North by Northwest”
7 Alternative to Prego
8 1957 title role for Frank Sinatra
9 In ___ of (replacing)
10 March goes out like this, as the expression goes
11 “___ the Greek”
12 Pyromaniac’s crime
14 Old NASA moon-landing vehicle
15 Great Dane of cartoons, informally
20 Short hairstyle
22 ___ Aviv, Israel
25 Match up (with)
26 Baghdad’s land
27 Boyfriend
28 Bartlet of “The West Wing” or Clampett of “The Beverly Hillbillies” 29 Figure made by lying in the snow and waving one’s arms
30 Sports official, informally
34 Voice below soprano
35 Chocolate/caramel candy
36 Narrow part of a bottle
38 Droop
40 Christmas ___ (December 24)
41 Mao Zedong was its leader
44 1960s hippie gatherings
46 Big Apple sch.
49 Hawks and doves
50 Rebuke to a dog
51 “Pygmalion” playwright, for short
52 Borders
53 Wears, as clothes
54 Amazon’s virtual assistant
58 Icicles and burning candles both do this
59 ___ Lingus 60 Mineral springs
62 Individually
63 Singer/lyricist Paul
64 Classic computer game set on an island
67 “Gangnam Style” singer