NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0728
ACROSS
1 Buds that are very close
5 “For those who think young” sloganeer, once
10 Drainage collector
14 Cookie that has been deemed kosher since 1997
15 Walled city of Spain
16 Sports event in which athletes try to avoid being touched
17 Porky’s significant other
19 Gillette razor handle 20 Make wise through experience
21 See
53-Across
23 Exceedingly
26 Letters at a bar
27 Signal that a reply is coming in a messaging app
30 Accept responsibility for
31 Terrific
34 Diatribe trigger
35 Official proceedings
37 Attempt to block 38 Original ___
39 Make art like
53-/21-Across (as suggested by this puzzle’s circled letters?)
41 Suffix with quartz
42 Pat who wrote “The Prince of Tides” and “The Great Santini”
44 Male hedgehog
45 Homer’s neighbor on “The Simpsons”
46 Source of some rings
47 Industry that encourages strikes?
48 Modest reply to a compliment 49 Biol. or chem.
50 Oklahoma’s state tree
53 With 21-Across, artist known to 39-Across pigments back and forth onto canvases
56 Melodic passage
60 Removal from danger, informally
61 ___ station, Central London railway terminal
64 Long ride?
65 Suffered a wipeout
66 Leaning to the right: Abbr.
67 Org. for Lt. Columbo 68 Jetés, e.g.
69 One leaning to the right
DOWN
1 Conks
2 Unoccupied
3 Cheese in a spanakopita
4 Boozehounds
5 Noted colonial pamphleteer
6 Señora Perón
7 Small hard seed
8 Moccasin, e.g.
9 False friend in Shakespeare
10 Babe in the Arctic
11 Somewhat
12 Chicago exchange, in brief
13 Like times that are the most expensive
18 Veterans Day mo.
22 Daffy Duck, notably
24 Indian flatbread
25 Low-ranking sailor
27 What you need some wiggle room to do?
28 Betelgeuse’s constellation
29 Where you might find love away from home?
32 Fragrant compound
33 Like an oboe’s sound
35 Dreamboat of a guy 36 Weep
37 Greeting in Rio
40 “Be ___” (motto for Wikipedia contributors)
43 Pacific food fish
47 Highly decorated
48 “That’s cool,
daddy-o!”
51 Taunts so as to get a reaction
52 Samovar
53 Come together
54 Running shoe brand
55 Gem that’s a woman’s name
57 Palindromic guy’s name
58 Succeed and then some
59 “Recycle ___” (sign on a bin) 62 Narc’s org.
63 Tango flourish