N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Flows out, as the tide
5 One who’s always complaining, complaining, complaining 9 Prevent through intimidation 14 Prefix with
-naut
15 ___ gras (goose or duck delicacy)
16 Contents of
a .jpeg file 17 Grand Central, for one
20 Host Harvey of “Family Feud”
21 Music genre often labeled “heavy”
22 Psychedelic
substance 23 ___ year (2020 or 2024)
25 Actor/ musician whose name sounds like a drink 27 Santa ___
winds
29 Event of October 1929
35 A long way
away
36 Bird symbolizing grace
37 Figure skater
Harding
38 Spoiler of a perfect record
40 Skiing or
skating
43 Legal
wrong 44 Love on the
Loire
46 Listening device for an undercover officer
48 Inconclusive
score
49 Pastry with a swirl
52 “I’ve ___ enough out of you!”
53 Bridge
54 Narrowly defeat, with “out”
56
La ___ (Bolivian capital)
59 “If only!”
62 €€€€€
65 Fire safety technique … or 17-,
29- and 49-Across together
68 Where to sit
for the bar? 69 Where baby Moses was found
70 Go back,
when editing 71 “Yum!”
72 Mother Nature’s blanket
73 Ooze
DOWN
1 Elves have big ones, stereotypically
2 Musical
rhythm
3 Star of “Room” and “Captain Marvel”
4 Do a crossword, say
5 Money manager, in brief
6 Wander
about
7 Right-hand
person
8 Closest pal
9 Cockney visà-vis English 10 An essential worker, for short
11 A sea horse has a prehensile one
12 Big heads
13 Tear up 18 Printing
paper units 19 What you may use when turning down an invitation
24 Canine “handshake” offerings
26 Gait for a horse with a buggy
27 Fortune 500 company whose name rhymes, appropriately, with “quack”
28 Tennis champ Osaka
30 Grammy genre since 1988
31 In the public consciousness
32 Terse request to a bartender
33 Damascus is
its capital
34 Word repeated in Roger
Ebert’s “I ___, ___, ___ This Movie” 39 Phoenix
N.B.A. team 41 Poke fun at 42 “You’re
right”
45 With haste 47 Came to a
close
50 Bryn ___ (women’s college)
51 Liver and ___
(dish)
55 Spiritual
guides
56 [Hey! Over
here!]
57 Lead-in to
boy or girl
58 They have everything from aardvarks to zebras
60 Whirl
61 Sign of
saintliness 63 Ye ___
Shoppe
64 Pigs’
supper
66 What calls the kettle black, in an expression 67 Fresh