The New York Times Crossword

By Jake Halperin

ACROSS

1 “Make it snappy!”

5 Metal for a

blacksmith

9 “Well, shucks!”

14 Bug bite annoyance

15 Put money in the

bank

16 Emotional states

17 What the suffix

“-er” may mean

18 Entree served in a

bowl

19 “Rainbow” fish

20 *British publishing house founded in 1935

23 Cookie with “Stuf”

inside

24 Lover boys

27 Reverse of “It is I”

30 Abbr. meaning “Be wary of looking at this in the office”

33 Having the means

34 Numbered classical

pieces

36 “I gotta decline”

37 In one’s birthday

suit

38 Sea: Fr.

39 *Certain ice cream

or soap product

42 Cambridge sch. that sends out acceptance letters on Pi Day

43 Singer Paul with the memoir “My Way”

45 Produce whoppers

46 Soy-based protein

source

48 Went kaput, as a

battery 49 Fashion legend

Wang

51 Hermann who wrote philosophical fiction

52 Impede the

progress of

54 Wander

56 Subject of “the talk” about sex

… or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues

61 Habitat’s flora and

fauna

63 Discontinued Apple

music player

64 Midday rests

66 What a score of 70 or less signifies on a common standardized test

67 Spill the beans

68 Lumberjack’s

target

69 Prefix with media

or cultural

70 Spiral down the

sink, say

71 A single time

DOWN

1 Asset in playing

Whac-a-mole

2 “I can’t take it any

longer!”

3 Farm measure

4 Minors who look to be headed to the majors

5 Magazine

installment

6 Mete out

7 Kitchen fixture

8 Inexperienced

gamer, informally

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9 Playground retort

10 One who makes his living with his hands

11 *Bodily response to

something eerie

12 End of a school’s

URL

13 Winter clock

setting in N.Y.C.

21 Trait of the fabled

fisherman’s wife

22 “Alternatively

…???”

25 Songs from the ’60s

and ’70s, say

26 Be quietly furious

27 Wanderers

28 Order to a birthday

child

29 *Thanksgiving

football game

31 Contemptuous

expression

32 “Mahvelous!”

35 Figured out, as a

mystery

40 Compete (for)

41 Goal of an intervention, maybe

44 “Enough denying!”

47 Token of past times

50 Actor

Schwarzenegger

53 Baghdad citizen

55 “As ironic as it

sounds …”

57 Place for a construction project

58 Mimicked

59 Make, as money

60 Display size or

camera res, e.g.

61 Antiracist movement since 2013, in brief

62 Letters acknowledging debt

65 “’I ___,’ said the blind man, as he picked up a hammer and saw”