NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 1027

ACROSS

1 Vacuum 5 Direction for

snowbirds

10 Foes of Frodo 14 ___ colada 15 Best

16 The Big Easy 17 Mail opening 18 Brunch offering 19 Subj. that includes the study of bubbles?

20 Eat, quaintly 22 Fatty, as tissue 24 Old T-shirt,

maybe 25 Complains,

donkey-style 28 Confronts reality 29 Modern ___ 30 They line the Champs-Élysées

31 Finish, as a

cake

32 “That’s a bad

idea!”

34 “That __ Then, This Is Now” (1971 S.E. Hinton novel)

35 Solution to some chemistry problems?

36 Start of a

reminiscence 37 Cynthia who played Harriet Tubman in 2019’s “Harriet” 39 Longtime CBS

drama

43 Where to find

“Fresh Air” 45 Identity prefix 46 Wildly outlandish

story

47 Range maker 50 Frenzied 52 Alternative to a

boot

53 Lawn equipment

with an engine 54 Hole ___

55 Rite Aid rival 56 Like some questions that will never be answered 58 Be in direct

competition 60 Bergdorf

competitor 61 Saguaros, e.g. 64 They may be split

or loose

66 Frozen treat 67 Words mouthed to

a TV camera 68 Make amends? 69 Frozen treat 70 Give an address 71 D.C. address?

DOWN

1 Air Force Two

riders

2 Crude

industrialist?

3 Not derived from

living matter

4 “It’s a ___!’” 5 Place where everything should have a mate 6 Couple’s word 7 Tribe for which a

state is named 8 Reason for an end zone celebration, for short

9 Did some

gardening

10 Like some families 11 Ornate

12 Places to hang hangers

13 Most reasonable 21 “Shark Tank” airer 23 Highly debatable 24 Give a makeover 26 A ways away 27 Confident

assertion

33 Home of

Dollywood 35 Moving too slowly,

say

38 Prosecco o

Chianti

40 Item of feline

furniture

41 “Five stars!” 42 Oodles

44 Part of PRNDL 47 College-level HS class with scales and intervals 48 Formula one locale 49 Rouse

50 Where a trapeze

artist performs 51 Co. big

57 Device with Alexa 59 Tiny pedestals, of

a sort

62 Nashville awards

org.

63 Little one

65 Apt name for a

goulash chef

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