NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Criticize, in slang 4 Something computers cannot write to or erase 9 Bottomless pit 14 “We ___ the World” 15 Nice smell
16 Like some handwriting ... or tipplers
17 Up to, informally 18 Traveled in the front passenger seat 20 ___ at the wheel 22 Lye, chemically 23 Rainbow’s shape 24 “Heavens to ___!” 26 Two-part 28 Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics teams 31 Degs. for CEOs 35 Chap
36 Pants part that might need patching 37 Join a conference call, say
39 Silly 41 Monopoly properties you can’t put houses on, in brief
43 End of a lasso 44 Screen ___ Guild 46 Rating between excellent and fair 48 Cry in a soccer stadium 49 Watermelon part that’s spit out 50 Main ingredient in a protein shake, maybe
53 Great Lake with the shortest name 55 Mommy’s sister
56 Kind of connection port on a PC 59 Overly fussy, say 61 Hit Broadway musical set partly in Paris, for short 64 What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28and 50-Across 67 Letters before an assumed name 68 Sudden forward thrust
69 “___ could’ve told you that!”
70 ___ center 71 Choice words? 72 Believer in Jah, informally
73 Pack animal of Tibet
DOWN
1 Facts and figures 2 Part of the eye 3 Stamp on a milk carton
4 One tending a house during the owner’s absence
5 Stops by
6 Towel holder 7 Eclipse or a black cat, some say 8 Ancient fortification overlooking the Dead Sea
9 Hi in HI
10 Spam spewer 11 Some quiet exercise 12 Appendage on a cowboy’s boot 13 Align, informally 19 Elvis’s “___ Dog” 21 Always, to a poet 25 Belgian river to the North Sea 27 “Hilarious!,” in a text 28 Assumed name 29 Knight’s weapon
30 Join the flow of traffic 32 Cocktail with tomato juice 33 Seating request on an airplane 34 Mocking smile 38 World’s largest island nation 40 Lymph ___
42 Tofu bean
45 Hogs 47 Luxurious 51 Doctor, ideally 52 Lbs. and ozs. 54 Wild party, in slang 56 Sch. whose home football games used to include a live bear on the field 57 Avoid 58 Extracurricular activity for a musician 60 Molten flow 62 International furniture chain 63 “The Suite Life of ___ & Cody” (bygone teen sitcom) 65 Amnesty International, e.g., in brief 66 Super ___ (1990s game console)