Ottawa Citizen

N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

- TAO PLATT / WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Policy nerd 5 P.F. ___ (restaurant chain)

11 Query

14 Gaelic

language 15 Actor

Pattinson 16 Actress

Farrow

17 Northern European region

19 Cozy

lodging 20 Kind of beef

from Japan 21 Like the richest soufflé

23 County of

Newark, N.J. 26 Oil-drilling

structure

27 Feeling of

dejection

30 Its flag has a blue 61-Across 34 Lyrical

dedication 35 Scare off

37 Play dirty

38 “Star Wars” racing vehicles

40 Flier with a

tail

42 Fiona or

Shrek

43 Swords with

blunted ends 45 Radium

discoverer 47 Mr. ___ (Tootsie Pop’s avian mascot) 48 Its flag has a white 61-Across 50 Beguile, to

Brits

52 “___ been meaning to mention …” 53 Military helicopter­s, colloquial­ly 54 2021 Elizabeth Warren book 58 Two kings or two queens, e.g. 60 Chopper

61 Flag symbol seen twice in this puzzle’s grid

66 Rapper ___

Wayne

67 Novelist

Graham

68 Opera

highlight

69 It’s a mess! 70 Was in a state of suppressed agitation

71 Actor Jon of “Good Omens”

DOWN

1 Director Anderson

2 Tolkien

monster

3 Secretive

org.

4 Logic puzzle invented by a math teacher as a teaching tool 5 Baby’s bed

6 Refine, as a

skill

7 Lawyers’ group, for short

8 Actress

Campbell

9 Climber’s belaying device

10 Job for a

play director 11 Female friend in France

12 Gluttony and

lust, for two 13 Philosophe­r

Immanuel 18 Outed maliciousl­y online

22 Home with a northern exposure

23 Got married in Vegas, perhaps

24 “That’s

awesome!” 25 Its flag has a yellow 61-Across

28 Little bit of

time

29 Soup starter 30 “___ Jacques, dormezvous?”

31 Popular vote winner of 2000

32 Its flag has a blueand-white 61-Across

33 Lingers (on) 36 Secondtall­est bird on earth 39 Penultimat­e

matches

41 10th anniversar­y gift

44 Nest egg

46 Set of moral

principles 49 Vacation

destinatio­n 51 “Yay!”

54 Friends

55 Sign at a highway cloverleaf

56 Depend (on) 57 See

58-Down

58 With 57-Down, car air freshener shape

59 Got an A on 62 Drops on the

grass?

63 Hour, in Italy 64 Virtual citizen in a popular video game franchise

65 Symbolic

U.S. “uncle”

 ?? ??

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