Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Bunch of wolves or cards

5 Busy with other things

11 The Beatles’ “Till There ___ You”

14 Jai ___ (sport)

15 Francis of old TV’s “What’s My Line?”

16 It clinks in a drink

17 Nurses, as a drink

18 Swamp in “Pogo”

20 In few words 22 Museum-funding org.

23 Like auto shop rags

24 1990s cartoon series featuring Yakko, Wakko and Dot

27 Org. featured in the documentar­y “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”

28 Abbr. meaning “and others”

29 Arizona college town

31 Some Best Buy buys, for short

34 Doggie doc

36 Bones next to ulnae

39 Baby-boomer series that starred Ken Olin

44 Indian stringed instrument

45 Around 50.25% of the world’s adult population

46 Letters before an alias

47 Meters and liters

50 Eve’s man

53 Pinnacle

55 Poet William who wrote “The Prelude”

60 Play opener 61 Flamenco cheer

62 Reproducti­ve cell for a fern

63 South American rodent with soft, dense fur

67 One may be halfbaked or brilliant

68 “___ soon?”

69 “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” author Joan

70 Must-have

71 ID in the form xxx-xx-xxxx

72 X-ray follow-up, perhaps

73 Deities

DOWN

1 Linguine or fettuccine

2 Not from Earth

3 ___ pants (cropped style popularize­d in the 1960s)

4 Instructio­n to Kate in a Cole Porter title

5 “___ Te Ching”

6 Rub the wrong way

7 Justice Kagan

8 Reason for a markdown

9 Disquieted state

10 Writing implement filled with 37-Down

11 Popular online reference

12 Amtrak express train

13 “So long!”

19 Tuba sound

21 Enjoy a meal

25 Dark shade of blue

26 Parts of a French archipelag­o

30 Actor with the famous line

“I pity the fool!”

31 Six for a TD, e.g.

32 Ho ___ Minh City

33 Word before room or comedy 35 Male cat

37 10-Down filler

38 “Hometown proud” supermarke­t

40 Jeannette ___, first woman elected to Congress

41 Prefix between bi- and quad

42 Cultural anthropolo­gist Margaret

43 Make ___ meet

48 Like some wellpitche­d games

49 One side in

eight-ball pool

51 “How cute!” sounds

52 In a sulk

53 Agreements

54 Amazon speakers introduced in 2014

56 Archaeolog­ist’s find

57 Contest with roping and riding

58 Cornered, in a way

59 Two are better than

one, they say

64 Public health agcy.

65 Mauna ___ (Hawaiian volcano)

66 Journalist Curry

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