NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “How to Be an Anti-___” (bestselling book of 2020)
7 Big kahuna
10 Way up to go downhill
14 Totally original
15 Bird that’s the source of Kalaya oil
16 Dance sometimes done to klezmer music
17 Play-by-play job?
19 A little cracked
20 Spanish for “weight”
21 Presidential nickname of the 19th century
23 Kansas or Kentucky, politically
26 Cap’n’s mate
27 Details, details
29 Certain Miller beers
31 Gear tooth
34 Soaks up a lot of sun
36 Improv comic’s forte
38 Chicago-style pizza chain, familiarly
40 Big Ten nickname
42 Architectural style of Nebraska’s capitol building, informally
43 Rhetoric for the political base, figuratively
45 Warning sign
47 Word with high or dive
48 “Cómo ___?”
50 Follower of “Too bad,” in an expression of mock pity
52 Gomer Pyle’s outfit: Abbr.
53 Low humming sounds
56 “Stay calm”
60 Stand-up comedian Bargatze
62 “___ Am Telling You” (song from “Dreamgirls”)
63 Traffic go-ahead that should be followed four times in this puzzle
66 Dance done to fiddle music
67 Director Lee 68 No longer under wraps?
69 Lagerfeld of fashion
70 ___ leaf (stew additive)
71 Over a large area
DOWN
1 File type
2 Drunkenness or hypnosis
3 It may be dismissed
4 Some metal castings
5 “Get it?”
6 Onetime United competitor
7 Refuse to pick up the bill?
8 “That’s my cue!”
9 Poodles, but not schnoodles or doodles
10 “How strange ...”
11 Nickname for tap-dancing legend Bill Robinson
12 ___ League
13 Unusual
18 Something waved when a race is won
22 Common mixer
24 PD alert
25 Udder end
28 Lord’s laborers
30 Warped, as a sense of humor
31 Pancetta or prosciutto
32 “My treat!”
33 Becomes insolvent
35 Inkblot, e.g.
37 Early man?
39 Behaved for a haircut, say
41 Glazier’s frame
44 Pack down
46 Long-bodied fish
49 Bug that inspired Poe’s “The Gold-Bug”
51 Persistently demanded payment from
54 French river in WWI fighting
55 Metaphor for strength
56 Like yin but not yang
57 Suited to serve
58 Simone known as the “High Priestess of Soul”
59 Punk’s Pop
61 Water whirl
64 AAA offering
65 Nail polish brand with a Bubble Bath shade
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