The New York Times crossword puzzle

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 reali

ty

29 Modern ___ 30 They line the ChampsÉlysées 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 chemis

try problems? 36 Start of a remi

niscence 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 outland

ish 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 com

petitor 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 ad

dress

71 D.C. address?

Down

1 Air Force Two

riders

2 Crude industri

alist?

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 gar

dening

10 Like some fam

ilies

11 Ornate 12 Places to hang

hangers 13 Most reason

able

21 “Shark Tank”

airer

23 Highly debat

able

24 Give a make

over

26 A ways away 27 Confident as

sertion

33 Home of Dolly

wood 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 H.S. class with scales and intervals 48 Formula 1

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