N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Buffoon

4 Some horses

9 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 14 “___-didah!”

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 53 1949 assistants winner) (first 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 aero45 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!”)