The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Many a rescue
5 Bit of wisdom
10 Playful sound while tapping someone’s nose
14 Brainchild
15 Buildup of tanks?
16 Atmospheric glow
17 Barrel of monkeys
19 Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world’s flags
20 Catalog
21 Person you might see in August?
22 Whac-A-___
23 Word after high or seven
26 Rice option 28 With 50-Across, blue streak
32 Shapes up
35 Black, in verse
36 Barrier in certain zoo enclosures
38 Dora the Explorer’s cousin 39 Bit of ink 40 Leather band used to sharpen razors
42 Landon who lost in a landslide to F.D.R.
43 Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell
46 Eye affliction
47 Voter on a failed 2014 independence referendum
48 Ghost in the machine
50 See 28-Across
52 Partner of dreams
54 Life-or-death
55 Blue-green shade
57 Florida politico Demings
59 “Toodles,” but more formally
63 Rip
64 Knock me down with a feather
67 Start of a fairy tale
68 Actress Messing 69 What the fourth little piggy had
70 Batik worker
71 Like many theater camp productions
72 Shred the ___ (skiing slang for conquering difficult terrain)
Down
1 Skirt covering the knees
2 Noodles often served in broth
3 Oversee, as a flock
4 Adopts
5 Insert a token, say
6 Sight at Rocky Mountain National Park
7 Excited
8 Accumulated, as charges
9 Goes by foot, informally 10 Rice option
11 Unobtainable
12 ___ motor skills (baby’s development)
13 Trim
18 C.T.O. or C.F.O.
24 Paper pushers?
25 They can be parting
27 Captained 28 Sting operation, e.g.
29 “A Promised Land” author, 2020
30 “No way!”
31 “Mostly harmless” place, per “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
33 Home with a dome
34 Giant head?
37 Messed (with)
41 Spa treatment,
informally 44 Burn like embers
45 Chump
47 Playoff ranking
49 One side of the Hoover Dam
51 Get, as a quick lunch
53 More evenkeeled
55 Walked (on)
56 Tiny, informally
58 Orientation inits.
60 It makes up about a third of our planet’s mass
61 ___ Mode, “no capes” advocate in “The Incredibles”
62 Operator
65 B&O and others
66 “Huzzah!”