N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
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”