NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Vehicles on snow-covered hills
6 Watering place for a camel
11 Indoor animal
14 “The Fox and the Grapes” storyteller
15 Trick-taking card game
16 Messenger ___
17 Large bird of prey with a brownish-yellow neck
19 Suffix with cynic or skeptic
20 Pleased
21 Hombre
22 Pool stick
23 Make excited, as a crowd
26 Smooshed into compact layers
28 ___ carte (ordered separately)
29 Blue race in “Avatar”
31 Kind of pickle
32 ___ for tat
33 Actor Kevin whose last name shares four letters with his first
35 Eric Clapton hit that’s over seven minutes long
38 Light bulb unit
40 Butchers’ offerings
42 Like tops and tales
43 Speak extemporaneously
45 Boringly proper
47 Conclude
48 Greek god of love
50 Away from the wind, nautically
51 It’s just a number, they say
52 Single, double and triple, on the diamond
55 Shows mercy to
57 Plant bristle
58 Poet’s “before”
59 Olla podrida, for one
60 Sheep’s cry
61 Where you can find a 17-Across perched on an 11-Down devouring a 25-Down
66 Noah’s construction
67 Opening remarks
68 One of the Allman Brothers
69 Envision
70 Valuable item
71 New York’s Memorial ___ Kettering Cancer Center
DOWN
1 Droop
2 Zodiac sign before Virgo
3 Course for some immigrants, in brief
4 Historic Kansas fort name
5 Explore caves
6 Like debts
7 “Bingo!”
8 Letter after rho
9 Cuba or Aruba
10 Sign maker’s pattern
11 Cactus with an edible fruit
12 Follow as a consequence
13 No longer feral
18 Incendiary bomb material
23 Formal ruling on a point of Islamic law
24 Trojan War epic poem
25 Venomous predator with a vibrating tail
26 They get smashed at parties
27 “Sadly …”
30 Strives for victory
34 And others: Abbr.
36 Sudden forward thrust
37 World’s longest continental mountain range
39 Lose stamina
41 Afternoon nap
44 European region that lent its name to a nonconforming lifestyle
46 “Could be …”
49 Ambulance sounds
52 Rum-soaked desserts
53 In the loop
54 Messages that sometimes contain emojis
56 Really, really bad
59 Get off ___-free
62 Fury
63 Philosopher ___-tzu
64 Get ___ on (ace)
65 Four-star officer: Abbr.