N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Travel aimlessly 5 Melville captain 9 Credit alternative 14 ___Defamation League

15 ___ gras 16 Loud public argument 17 Device for tapping groundwater 19 Lovers’ rendezvous 20 Debacle

21 Pop hit? 23 “Nope!” 24 What Apple’s mobile devices run on

25 $$$ pro, for short

27 Hippo campus? 29 Vexation 30 This-andthat dish 32 In disguise for a mission 35 This-andthat dish 36 Only fourterm prez 37 Echelons 38 Period after a championship

42 Sky hue 45 Seabird of colder climes 46 Singer Eartha 50 What’s hung on a clothesline 53 Don’t go 54 Kitchen counter crawler 55 General whose orders are sometimes carried out?

56 “Plot twist!” 58 “How you livin’?” 59 Midmonth occasion 61 Some party hirees, for short

63 Not perfectly round

65 They may protect diamonds 67 They usually attract

(not in this puzzle, though) 69 Visually assess 70 Weirdo 71 “Dibs!”

72 Papa

73 Airport approximations: Abbr.

74 Part of BFF

DOWN

1 Sashimi, e.g. 2 The slightest amount

3 Map books 4 “Cool” amounts 5 Updo styled with an elastic band 6 ___ polloi 7 Is down with something 8 Its capital is Belmopan 9 Spring forward/fall back inits. 10 Beigeish shade 11 Fans of singer Knowles, collectively 12 Actuary’s employer 13 Holds in place

18 700, in ancient Rome

22 Word before “favor” or “ejemplo” 26 No ifs, ___ or buts

28 Prefix meaning “eight” 31 Fingerprint shape

33 Really not look forward to

34 Sounds from a sty

39 Abbr. between two singers’ names 40 Surrounding glow 41 Signature shots of Kareem AbdulJabbar 42 Looked forward to 43 One-named star of HBO’s “Euphoria” 44 Said aloud 47 “Dead even!” 48 Loses slack 49 Prepare for printing 51 Amer. currency 52 “Seriously!” 57 Crunches work them 60 Tater

62 Help out, as a benchpresser 64 Partner for life

66 Do recon 68 Rocket’s escape vessel