The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Flows out, as the tide
5 One who’s always complaining, complaining, complaining 9 Prevent through intimidation 14 Prefix with -naut
15 ___ gras (goose or duck delicacy) 16 Contents of a .jpeg file 17 Grand Central, for one
20 Host Harvey of “Family Feud” 21 Music genre often labeled “heavy” 22 Psychedelic substance 23 ___ year (2020 or 2024) 25 Actor/musician whose name sounds like a drink
27 Santa ___ winds
29 Event of October 1929 35 A long way away
36 Bird symbolizing grace 37 Figure skater Harding 38 Spoiler of a perfect record 40 Skiing or skating
43 Legal wrong 44 Love on the Loire 46 Listening device for an undercover officer 48 Inconclusive score
49 Pastry with a swirl
52 “I’ve ___ enough out of you!”
53 Bridge 54 Narrowly defeat, with “out”
56 La ___ (Bolivian capital)
59 “If only!” 62 €€€€€
65 Fire safety technique … or 17-, 29- and 49-Across together 68 Where to sit for the bar? 69 Where baby Moses was found
70 Go back, when editing 71 “Yum!” 72 Mother Nature’s blanket 73 Ooze
Down
1 Elves have big ones, stereotypically 2 Musical rhythm 3 Star of “Room” and “Captain Marvel”
4 Do a crossword, say 5 Money manager, in brief
6 Wander about 7 Right-hand person
8 Closest pal 9 Cockney vis-àvis English 10 An essential worker, for short
11 A sea horse has a prehensile one 12 Big heads 13 Tear up 18 Printing paper units
19 What you may use when turning down an invitation 24 Canine “handshake” offerings
26 Gait for a horse with a buggy 27 Fortune 500 company whose name rhymes, appropriately, with “quack” 28 Tennis champ Osaka 30 Grammy genre since 1988 31 In the public consciousness 32 Terse request to a bartender 33 Damascus is its capital 34 Word repeated in Roger Ebert’s “I ___, ___, ___ This Movie” 39 Phoenix N.B.A. team
41 Poke fun at 42 “You’re right” 45 With haste 47 Came to a close
50 Bryn ___ (women’s college) 51 Liver and ___ (dish) 55 Spiritual guides
56 [Hey! Over here!] 57 Lead-in to boy or girl
58 They have everything from aardvarks to zebras 60 Whirl
61 Sign of saintliness 63 Ye ___ Shoppe 64 Pigs’ supper 66 What calls the kettle black, in an expression 67 Fresh