N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 So far

6 Jazz style

11 Not an exact amount: Abbr.

14 Note from a 6-Down that might give you jitters 15 Plains tribe 16 To the ___ degree 17 Experience, redundantly 19 Opus ___ 20 Prefix with tourism 21 Come after 22 “Victory is mine!”

23 Like some telephones and tires 25 Snitch, redundantly 28 Novelist Morrison 29 Dark force, in Chinese philosophy 32 Hoi polloi, with “the” 33 Smidgen 35 “The Highwayman” poet

37 Angsty music genre 38 Moolah, redundantly 41 Automated producer of spam 44 5/8/1945 45 Popeye’s creator E. C. ___

49 Spaced out mentally 51 Track relentlessly 53 Singer India.___ 54 Hack, redundantly 56 F equivalent 58 “Anybody ___?” 59 Folgers alternative 62 A/C meas.

63 Word in brackets after a mistake 64 Cottontail, redundantly 67 Get ___ on (ace)

68 Can’t be found at the office

69 One of 10 in bowling

70 Pro ___

71 Selfdescription after a major lifestyle change 72 Exhorted

DOWN

1 Different sides to observe 2 Ship’s galley worker

3 “Give me a simple answer!”

4 911 responder, for short 5 Giggle

6 Head honcho 7 Question to a backstabber 8 Rude person in the bleachers 9 Contraction sung twice in the first verse of “The StarSpangled Banner” 10 College subj. that covers

Freud 11 How train cars are linked 12 Feminist Gloria 13 “Really?”

18 ___ 500 22 Hypotheticals

24 The “D” of D.J.

26 “You got that right!” 27 Shocks, in a way

30 How many TV shows are viewed nowadays 31 Wanderer 34 Pandemonium 36 Quickly change one’s mind back and forth

39 Video game giant

40 “You got that right!”

41 Goes for, as when bobbing for apples

42 Like laundry being dried outdoors 43 Subject of an I.R.S. consumer warning 46 Potpourri 47 Broadcast slot

48 Said

(to be) 50 Shakespearean cry before “What, are you mad?” 52 One of 10 in a ten-speed 55 At this point 57 Problem that has ballooned 60 E pluribus ___

61 Memory unit 64 Recycling container 65 Not let go to waste

66 “I’m f-ffreezing!”