N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
We asked some favorite Times crossword contributors, “What would you like to do in a daily Times crossword that has never been done before?” This week’s puzzles, Monday to Saturday, are the result.
Across
1 Did some gardening 5 Food product whose name is used nowadays mostly in a nonfood way 9 Pro-___ 12 One bit 14 Not connected 15 Danger for a small boat 17 Puccini title heroine 18 Home that’s never left? 20 Working as assigned 22 Orpheus or Spartacus, by birth 23 Swinish sound 24 Christmas edible 27 Ones powerless to move? 29 Word with code or road 30 Volcanic peak in the Cascades 32 1978 Superman portrayer 33 Mesmerized 34 ___ be tied 36 Follower of “roger,” to a radioer 39 Like cherries jubilee 41 Big name in appliances 42 “Are you joking?” 44 Intl. treaty subject 45 Pass an exam with flying colors 46 Yuri’s love in “Doctor Zhivago” 47 Flimflams 49 Gazed 51 Comfortably warm 52 [How horrible!] 55 Our place in the universe 57 Prefix with -dextrous 58 Entree 62 One of Goya’s Black Paintings also known as “El Perro” 63 Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, with “the” 66 Some bandage materials 70 In olden times 71 Satellite dish precursors 72 Companion of Quasimodo 73 Drunk’s ailment, for short 74 Prohibitionists 75 Picnic side dish
Down
1 Help for the flummoxed 2 Roman emperor who overthrew Galba 3 Slippery ones 4 Certain clergywoman 5 Phoenix athletes 6 Bust supporter 7 Capital ESE of Istanbul 8 Ruling family of Florence 9 Flagon fillers 10 Socratic ___ 11 Backup player 13 Relating to national governments 16 Order with a Grand Lodge 19 Jessica with an Oscar for “Tootsie” 21 Smidgen 24 Desert bloomer 25 “Step aside, I can help” 26 Certain stovetop hazard 28 Real go-getter 29 Pooch’s sound 31 Muffler attachment 32 Modernize, as machinery 35 Until due 37 1980s-’90s courtroom drama 38 Dress shirt insert 40 Straddled 41 Hits sharply 43 Celebratory cry 48 Financial guru Suze 50 Wharton who wrote “Ethan Frome” 51 1964 Summer Olympics 52 Epic tale 53 Flimflammed 54 Makes cutting remarks toward 56 Places pigeons perch 59 Secured 60 Calorie watcher 61 Climb (up) 64 “Super” parts of the psyche 65 Church service 67 Eurasia’s ___ Mountains 68 Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald 69 Espied