NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Yaks

5 *Gulf Coast

waterway 10 Simpson family member who says “Get bent!”

14 Eye layer

containing the iris 15 Reunion attendees,

informally 16 “Never Have

I ___” (Mindy Kaling Netflix series)

17 Aspiring doc’s

exam

18 Imam’s holy book 19 Campbell of

“Scream” 20 Sandwich known

by its initials

21 Not taking sides 23 ___ de plume 24 One-up

26 “Yay, me!” 28 *Main drag of the

French Quarter 34 *Celebration with

king cakes 35 Chick’s chirp 38 Eccentric 39 Varieties

43 No power? 44 “Absolutely!” 45 Singer Celine 46 What nephology

is the study of 49 Foe of Austin

Powers

51 Wombs

53 Bird in a gaggle 54 Rapper Mos ___ 56 Nickname for New Orleans, celebrated by the answers to the starred clues and suggested by the shaded squares 58 NYC airport 61 Psyched about 63 Once around the

track

64 Harlem Renaissance writer Locke 66 “Later!”

67 Mine find

68 “I put the sing in single” singer 69 Ship’s backbone 70 *___ Square (translation of “Vieux Carré”) 71 [Wrong answer!] 1 *Cajun stew

2 Pop culture site created as a supplement to The Onion

3 Arrive at ahead of 4 Parked oneself 5 Prepare, as a king

cake

6 Baseball family

name

7 Steppes

dwelling

8 Actor Epps 9 Annapolis inst. 10 Actor Platt of “Dear Evan Hansen”

11 *St. Charles or

Esplanade 12 Uprising 13 *2010-13 HBO series set shortly after Hurricane Katrina 21 Screenwriter Ephron 22 Former Italian money 25 Empty, as a purse 27 Lives (in) 29 “Hang on a sec,” in texts

DOWN

30 Singer Anita of

the swing era 31 Evening, in ads 32 Some NCOs 33 Attempt

35 Plastic pipe

material, in brief 36 ___ sauce (sushi roll topper)

37 *Cajun shellfish-overrice dish 40 *Music heard at Preservation Hall

41 Colorful pond fish 42 NBC hit since ’75 47 Actress Messing 48 ___ Lanka

49 Uno + uno 50 Queenly

52 Ice house 53 Stared in wonder 54 Twilight time 55 Fencing event 57 ___ Grey tea 59 Soda’s pop? 60 Shoelace or muscle problem 62 Popeye’s Olive 65 Women’s ___