Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Like some
committees
6 Many a Syrian or
Yemeni
10 “Ri-i-i-ight”
14 “Je t’aime” : French :: “___” : Spanish
15 Does some tech
work
17 Firm fruit
18 With 66-Across, hint for solving this puzzle
20 “Roll doubles to get out of jail” or “You do not talk about Fight Club”
21 Supreme
Egyptian deity
22 Centerpiece of an
agenda
24 Actor George of
“The Goldbergs”
27 Museum
curators’ degs.
28 “Lah-di-___!”
31 Some nightclub
performances 33 Sound of impact
36 Vexed
38 Garment patented in 1914 by Mary Phelps Jacob
39 “My alarm didn’t
go off,” for one
41 Young musician
42 Mount Olympus
44 Look good
45 One of the Three
Magi
47 Insurance giant bailed out in 2008
48 Some turban
wearers
49 Hwy. accident
respondent
50 Call home
53 Singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills”
54 Gossip
55 Sticky plant stuff
57 As a unit
61 Takes a whiff 65 Thick Japanese
noodle
66 Continuation of
18-Across
69 Cuts short
70 Feature of a
helmet, maybe
71 Absorb, as
information
72 Water buffalo
73 ___ Midas Wolf (Disney’s “Three Little Pigs” antagonist)
74 Senator Joni of
Iowa
DOWN
1 Gillette razor
name
2 Judge
3 Give birth to
4 Signs of trouble
5 Emend
6 No soft serve
7 Caviar, for
example
8 Only human,
briefly
9 Wasn’t, then was
10 Actor Elba of “Cats” Engagement ring
12 What is she in
France?
13 Abound
16 Went to third, say
19 Story spanning
generations
23 Lil ___ (“Old Town
Road” rapper)
25 U.S.A., USB or
U.S.C.
26 Wild West show
rope
28 Word with square
or line
11
PUZZLE BY ALEX ROSEN 29 Crew top 30 Job bank
32 Symbol of sharp wit
33 Does not
34 Official beer sponsor of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
35 Group thinking
37 Grossglockner, for one
40 CBS forensic drama 42 Object of hatewatching, perhaps
43 Giant storybook
46 Not very much
48 Rod used to
make yarn
51 1978 movie musical starring Diana Ross
52 U.N. member
until 1991
54 Like a neutron
star
56 Not as nasty
57 Part IV 58 Evidence of expiration
59 Cold Asian desert
60 National flower of England
62 Cold Spanish dessert
63 Pelts
64 Lampooned, with “up”
67 Pan Asian 68 Rock hard