The New York Times Crossword

By Jess Shulman and Amie Walker

ACROSS

1 Front’s opposite

5 Some male deer

10 What gives Scotch

an earthy flavor

14 Long, cylindrical

instrument

15 Kind of bond in

chemistry

16 “That hurts!”

17 [Get my

innuendo?]

19 Beech or birch

20 When a plane is

due, for short

21 Show hosts, in

brief

22 “Doesn’t matter

who”

24 Actress Jessica

25 Close by

26 Something a digital crossword solver doesn’t need

29 Winter hours in

N.Y.C.

31 Exploding stars

35 “Relax, soldier”

37 [Get my

innuendo?]

39 Moderate gait for

a horse

40 “Later, dudes”

42 Response to the

Little Red Hen

43 [Get my

innuendo?]

45 Worked

47 Younger Obama

daughter

48 “That’s all ___

wrote”

50 Takes in what

someone wrote

51 Engrave

53 Dozes (off)

55 “That’s what people tell me, anyway”

58 Midori ___, first woman to land a triple axel in competition

59 Chop (off)

62 Bridal veil fabric

63 [Get my

innuendo?]

66 Furniture store known for its cafeterias’ meatballs

67 Message on a

candy heart

68 Classic pie crust

ingredient

69 “Hey you!”

70 Painter Degas

71 Membership fees

DOWN

1 Chicken leftover

2 Be adjacent to

3 Musician’s

conclusion

4 Beer barrel

5 “___ U Been Gone” (Kelly Clarkson hit)

6 Mess up, as hair

7 As well as

8 Beyond big

9 Big public

argument

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10 Baked things that might get people baked

11 Currency that replaced the mark and peseta

12 Got an A+ on

13 ___/them

pronouns

18 Mideast leaders

23 Tug hard

24 Keep cool in a

pool, perhaps

26 Trails

27 Open-air lobbies

28 Menial workers,

dismissively

30 Strip of mowed

grass

32 Egot-winning

actress Davis

33 Contributed to a

kitty

34 Loses traction on

the road

36 Commercial leadin to Pen

38 Take-home

amount

41 Cover completely

44 “Anger leads to ___. ___ leads to suffering”: Yoda

46 Surgeon, for short

49 Riddle

52 Something you might clear to improve memory

54 Catchall category

55 Undergarment for

a dress

56 Acorn producers

57 Frosts, as a cake

59 Hawaiian banquet

60 Fairy tale baddie

61 Professors’ degs.

64 Big name in fleecy

boots

65 What a good joke

never gets