N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Potato, informally
5 Desert
succulent
10 Net
material
14 … approximately
15 ___
Heights (Syria/Israel border area) 16 Reverberation
17 “So, this red thing, Mom? This is not good.” 19 Ending with church or party
20 Wild time at
the mall
21 Assesses
visually
23 Lounge
around
26 Amend a tax return, perhaps
27 “The French one is my favorite. Wait, no, the pretzel one.” 32 Lamb’s
mother 33 Gaze
intently
34 Get out of ___
(leave town)
38 Boring
40 Mexican marinade made with chili pepper 42 Sonnet or
ode
43 Request
from
45 Blissful
spots
47 Printer
malfunction 48 “Eww, mollusks
… I don’t know, didn’t this make me sick last time?”
51 Actress Meryl with nine Golden Globe Awards
54 “Buona
___” (Italian greeting) 55 Render
impossible 58 Fumble
(for) 62 It’s a crime
to lie under it 63 “Wow, Mom, this is like at a restaurant! Dibs on the chocolate pudding!”
66 Garfield’s
canine pal
67 Energy giant synonymous with corporate scandal
68 “I get it now” 69 Ecosystem built by corals
70 Seat at a
counter
71 Has an evening meal
DOWN
1 Weeps loudly
2 Get ready for
a test, say
3 ___ name and password
4 “Ooh, spill
the tea!”
5 “___ before
beauty”
6 Republicans,
for short
7 ___ vera
8 Change into different forms
9 Walks in
10 Epic
failure
11 Culprit in some food poisoning cases
12 Conch, e.g. 13 Animal in a
stable
18 Rises up on its hind legs, as a 13-Down 22 Item strung on a necklace
24 Actress Catherine ___-Jones
25 Manages to
elude
27 Singer
McEntire
28 You can’t say they won’t give a hoot!
29 Reveal, as confidential information 30 Gradually wear away, as soil
31 Rises up in protest
35 Training place for martial arts 36 One of 10 on
a 10-speed 37 Award won multiple times by “Modern Family” and “All in the Family”
39 Popular meal kit company (or the mother of the food critic featured in this puzzle?) 41 “You can
count ___” 44 Gas or coal 46 Twilled fabric for suits
49 Sea
foams
50 Former Philippine president Ferdinand
51 Scent of an
animal
52 Exchange
53 Fix,
as a knot
56 Journey’s “___ Stop Believin’”
57 $ : dollar :: €
: ___
59 Honolulu’s
home
60 Sound of sitting down heavily
61 Fraternal
order
64 Phillipa
___, Tony nominee for “Hamilton” 65 NBC sketch
show, in brief