NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Info for an air traveler
5 2019 voice role for Beyoncé
9 Gym leader?
14 Operating system from Bell Labs
15 One tiny bit
16 Basic skateboarding trick
17 Play like a puppy
18 Oboe or flute sound
20 Experiencing agita
22 Precursor of rocksteady
23 Put in
24 Aloof group
26 More than calls
29 Home to around eight million Americans
33 Big-tongued comics character
34 Something you have up your sleeve
35 1992 biopic starring Jack Nicholson
39 -: Abbr.
40 Celebrated Thanksgiving, say
42 Deli supply
43 Sight at the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
45 Cry of lament
46 Needle maker
47 Circumlocutory
50 Early TV network that competed with NBC and CBS
53 Features of housewarming parties
54 Funder of New York’s Strawberry Fields memorial
55 Publisher of the World Factbook, in brief
58 Pushes out of bed
61 Some winter wear
65 “Just be patient”
66 Place of refuge
67 Take a ___
68 Former Expos and Giants manager Felipe
69 Refine, in a way
70 Aphorisms
71 Word interpreted literally in completing four of this puzzle’s answers
DOWN
1 Whiz 2 Mystery writer, for short
3 It’s commonly used to make a product
4 Tract
5 Along with gold, one of the team colors of the Midshipmen
6 Often-muddy transport, for short
7 Places to go in England
8 Wildly
9 Female on a farm
10 Stadium cheer
11 Hound dog hounders
12 Spanish accent
13 Fixes, in a way
19 Caution
21 Lead-in to la
25 Deli slice
27 Cause of some impulsive behavior, in brief
28 “What can ___?”
29 They move in a charged atmosphere
30 It’s a thought
31 Actor Williams of “Happy Days”
32 Swimming
36 Goes it alone
37 Like some farewells
38 Eighty-sixed
40 Babe in the woods
41 Gets behind
44 A pair 46 Examination
48 Medical symptom, maybe
49 Pair 50 Places to learn to fight
51 Free of blocks
52 Classic Abercrombie & Fitch logo
56 Cartoonists’ supplies
57 ___ of Arendelle (Disney heroine)
59 Betty Boop, e.g.
60 Close-fitting
62 Word with baby or snake
63 Former presidential inits.
64 Darn, darn, darn!