N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Delish!” 5 “___ Sexy” (1991 dance hit)

10 Single at a

bar, perhaps 13 Brown

powder

15 Brown

powder

16 Costa ___

17 Popular

pops

18 Point a

finger at

19 Fan fave

20 Kennel

sound 21 Southern newspaper that William Faulkner once contributed to, with “The”

24 Prefix with beat or futurism

26 Toy dog from

Tibet

27 Sport with Native American origins

30 Melodramatist 31 Kind of

saxophone 32 Rapper for whom Harvard’s Hip-Hop Fellowship is named

34 Get cozy

39 Cultivars known for their yellow flesh

43 “Excuse me” 44 Do some patching, say

45 Book after

Joel 46 Compadre 48 Quantity that’s tied to one’s carbon footprint

51 Second way of viewing things, figuratively 56 Appear

57 What a solver might growl after catching on to this puzzle’s theme?

59 Genre for

the Mighty

Mighty Bosstones 62 Mine find

63 Mother-of-pearl

64 Motorola

smartphone 66 Flubs it

67 Not using profanity, as a comedian 68 “___ is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope”: Aristotle

69 Central concept of philosopher Zhuangzi’s teachings

70 Repeatedly comments (on)

71 The first one in The New York Times appeared in 1970

DOWN

1 Southwest

desert plant 2 Dock

3 Metric of

grossness

4 Classic comedy figure who sported a bowl cut

5 Certain warhead transport, in brief

6 Phoenix and Washington, e.g.

7 Low culture, disparagingly

8 Brass band

sound

9 Showily

deferential 10 Neaten 11 Clickable

things

12 Prefix with

-lithic

14 Lone Star State athlete

16 Certifier of music sales, for short

22 Apple devices run on it

23 “Along ___

spider …”

25 Palm part

27 Easy twopointer

28 ___-Seltzer 29 Not Ready for Prime Time Players show, for short

33 Where a zipper gets caught?

35 Put on

36 Popular hotand-sour Thai dish

37 Some summer babies

38 To be: Lat. 40 Headgear for many an extreme athlete 41 Using

intuition

42 Have

47 Syllables said with fingers in one’s ears 49 Night sch.

class

50 Thin, as a

voice

51 Small screech, for example

52 Actress

Birch

53 Green power option, informally 54 A scallop has up to 200 of these

55 Not

so cold

58 Second place at a math competition?

60 Symbol of

highness

61 Focus problem, for short

65 Joey of children’s fiction