NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Buffoon 4 Some horses 9 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

14 “___-di-dah!”

15 Leave college sports early, say

16 Quarters

17 Musical Yoko 18 With 71-Across, 2016, 2018

20 Food pkg. info 22 Slangy negative 23 Here, in Havana 24 2015, 2016, 2018

29 Have goals 30 Completely behind 34 Little pest

35 Isolates, in businessspeak

38 Ocean predator 39 One-named singer with the #1 hit “Cheap Thrills” 40 2012 43 Show piece 44 Lead-in that means “Way to go!” 46 General tone

47 Abu Dhabi’s land: Abbr. 48 Literally, “frying pan” 51 Futuristic assistants

53 1949 (first winner)

57 Away from the bow 60 Principal

61 Cousin of a plum

62 What each of the programs in this puzzle has won at least once 67 Half of nine?

68 Danger

69 Bulgaria’s capital

70 URL ending

71 See 18-Across

72 Pre-1917 rulers

73 QB’S stats

DOWN

1 Beside

2 Track that hosted Seabiscuit’s final race 3 Missouri, with “the”

4 ___ Khan (Islamic title) 5 “Coriolanus” setting 6 Calendar abbr.

7 Thorny plant

8 Prefix with economics 9 Place for trophies 10 Epitome of simplicity 11 “___ and the Lost City of Gold” (2019 movie) 12 Battlefield figure

13 Site of a Herculean feat 19 Palindromic girl

21 Summit

25 What trawlers trawl for 26 Small jazz group

27 Bit of bicycling gear 28 ___-mo

31 Like kited checks 32 Brought about

33 A mile a minute, e.g. 34 Pronto

36 Fan’s cry

37 Chain letters?

41 “Me neither”

42 Ending with aero

45 The Matterhorn is one 49 In the end

50 Con

52 Stats for eggheads 54 Most meek

55 Shelfmates of Chips Ahoy!

56 Drink garnishes

57 Most newspapers have them nowadays

58 Worry

59 Beginner: Var. 63 1960s-’70s Israeli leader

64 Music school deg.

65 Old space station

66 “___ queen!” (“You go, girl!”)