NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
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