The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Facts and figures
5 Snacks for aardvarks
9 Boggle, Scrabble and others
14 Makes a mistake
15 ___-chic (hippieinfluenced fashion)
16 “Workers of all lands ___” (phrase on Marx’s tombstone)
17 South American palm with a black-purple berry
18 Make, as money
19 Put into law
20 Los Angeles venue named for the star of “12 Angry Men”
23 Do needlework
24 Lots and lots
25 Network with an eye logo
28 Yellowfin tuna
30 Disney+ series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
34 Animals that may be subject to an apartment restriction
36 What electric cars don’t need
37 Apartment you own
38 “Butch Cassidy” and “The Sundance Kid,” for two
40 “The Canterbury Tales” author
42 Identical copy
43 Promise-to-pay letters
44 Stadium seating section
45 First car from a Japanese manufacturer to be made in the U.S. (1982)
49 “Dear old” family member
50 Letter before tee
51 Eye affliction
52 Take advantage of
54 Creator of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” … or, when said aloud, a hint to the starts of 20-, 30 and 45-Across
59 Squabble
62 Faux-humble response to a compliment
63 Swanky party
64 Oyster’s prize
65 Gospel singer Winans
66 “Battle ___ of
the Republic”
67 Kick out
68 Talk back to
69 Made off with
Down
1 Not able to hear
2 With the bow, in music
3 “So, anyway, ...” and “On that note ...,” e.g.
4 Parenthetical comment
5 Help with a heist
6 Trevor of “The Daily Show”
7 Clothes, slangily
8 Beethoven’s “Moonlight ___”
9 Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece
10 Brontë sister
11 Soccer star Hamm
12 List-ending abbr.
13 Where a TV show is filmed
21 Reaction to cuteness
22 “Mazel ___!”
25 Annual celebration of Mexican heritage
26 Neighborhood grocery store
27 Made sounds while sound asleep
28 Sugarhill Gang song with the repeated line “Jump on it!”
29 Greetings
31 How old
you are
32 “Illmatic”
rapper
33 First Pixar film with a Black protagonist
35 Something brought home unintentionally from the beach
39 Something brought home intentionally from the beach
40 Dove’s sound
41 “Ben-___”
43 Chilled drink that might be served with a lemon wedge
46 From ___ Z
47 Skeptical sorts
48 “Oh, that was so obvious!”
53 One of the five senses
54 Word that conveys skepticism when its vowel sound is dragged out
55 Rainbow shapes
56 Some loaves or whiskeys
57 Ticklish Muppet
58 Went down, as hearts or ships
59 Animal aptly found in “banana peel”
60 “Oedipus ___”
61 Thing to mind between the train and platform