The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Mitts 5 Short-term employment
8 Edible part of a nut
12 With 68-Across, cocreator of the British parody band the Rutles
13 Land next to the Land of Nod
15 Super-super
17 This puzzle’s solution
19 Schnozzola
20 Actress Mireille ___ of “Good Omens”
21 Cheats on
23 What comes after love
26 Terminate from an agency, in spy lingo
27 ___-foot (volume measure)
28 Claptrap
30 Strip lights
33 Juicers use them
35 Opera character whose first name is Floria
37 Device that turns plastic into paper?
39 Front or back
40 Didn’t quite make it home, say
42 The 2 in 1/2, e.g.
43 Groove on
44 Relationship with a statistics teacher?
45 Blading need
47 Relinquished
49 Biz bigwig, in brief
51 ___-deucey (backgammon variety)
52 Check, with “in”
54 Date for a party
56 Aid in some problemsolving
60 Author of “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me,” 1985
61 Head-to-toe garment
62 “Figure it out!” … or how to arrive at this puzzle’s solution, using the answers to italicized clues
66 Part of R.B.G.
67 One branch of Islam
68 See 12-Across
69 Storm cloud?
70 Go (for)
71 Not G-rated, say
Down
1 What may be filled with ink … or oink
2 M.L.B. team that plays at Chase Field, in brief
3 Vintage appliance?
4 Like some love letters and candles
5 Jumbo jet?
6 Phrase with a hand raise
7 Fellow
8 Bibliophile’s recommendations
9 Current phenomenon
10 High school model, maybe
11 “That’s right”
14 Novice, informally
16 Symbols used for tagging
18 Corn spot
22 Someone might order cannabis by this
23 Managed
24 Widely recognized
25 Playground cry
29 It’s up for debate
31 Mocktail with a rhyming name
32 ___ Island
34 Work on the side of a building, perhaps
36 Sailing vessel
38 “Poppycock!”
41 Bicycle spokes,
e.g.
46 Disputed region between India and Pakistan
48 Ducks that
don’t lay eggs
50 Trite 53 Indicators of acknowledgment
55 Persian Gulf land: Abbr.
56 Go back
57 Certain leg muscle, familiarly
58 Origin of the words “khaki” and “pajama”
59 N.Y.C. neighborhood bounded by the Bowery to the east
63 Help line?
64 Special treatment, for short
65 “Listen here!”