N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
Across
1 Diminishes in intensity 7 Resident of Oman or Yemen 11 Breaks you wish would end? 14 “Sweetheart” 15 Protein-rich vegan staple 16 “Do ___ disturb” (motel sign) 17 *Iron Man’s love interest 19 ___ Jima 20 Mean dog sound 21 Hit one out of the park 23 Trim, as a photograph 26 *Intimate chitchat 29 Old-fashioned address organizer 31 Most correspondence nowadays 32 Unsettled feeling 33 Actor McKellen 34 Display 37 Ford Escape or Jeep Cherokee, for short 38 “Shut up already!” … or what you can do to the start of the answer to each starred clue 42 Cheer at a fútbol match 43 Goes out with 45 Slip-___ 46 Mistreat 48 Disney fawn 50 Diminished in value, as a currency 52 *Annual Thanksgiving Day run 55 Refuse to admit 56 Copper + zinc 57 Came to light 59 “Deadly” offense 60 *Knit headwear that may have a tufted ball at its end 66 Stephen Colbert’s Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, e.g. 67 Part of the roof where icicles form 68 ___ Beach, Calif. 69 Admonition in a movie theater 70 Shadowbox 71 Former celebrity
Down
1 Concert haul? 2 “Ciao” 3 Swiss mountain 4 Number one position 5 Fair and balanced 6 Mexican shawl 7 Ring-shaped reef 8 Spoil 9 Sternward 10 Complete rubbish 11 *Classic comedy set at the fictional Faber College 12 Carpentry pin 13 Bird on a birth announcement 18 ___ fixe (menu notation) 22 Soul singer Redding 23 Lacking refinement 24 Charming scoundrel 25 *Offer of reconciliation 27 Page (through) 28 All: Prefix 30 Prosecutors,
briefly 33 “No ___, ands or buts” 35 Jimmy ___, reporter for the Daily Planet 36 Like overgrown gardens 39 ___ Keith, singer with 20 #1 country hits 40 Gram or dram 41 Indenting computer key 44 Fifth Avenue retailer 47 Perpetual troublemakers 49 Pigsties 50 Nerd 51 Prima ballerina 52 Cookbook amts. 53 Dickens’s ___ Heep 54 Indy 500 car 58 Chips and popcorn, in commercialese 61 “Singin’ in the Rain” dance style 62 Fertilizable cells 63 Sever 64 Santa ___, Calif. 65 72, for many golf courses