The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Jamaican
music genre 4 Largest city in
Nebraska 9 Pulitzer or
Pritzker 14 Approximate weight of a fullgrown walrus 15 Eggs (on) 16 Desert watering
hole
17 Author
Bradbury
18 Got hitched 20 Some saxes 22 ___-wop 23 Mount ___, active Italian volcano
24 Not require
fees to be paid 28 Hashtag that trended in a late-2010s movement 29 Covers in goo
33 App that asks “Where to?” on its home screen
35 Office
leader
38 Silly
39 Lust or envy
40 Something you might hold to your ear in order to hear the first parts of 18-, 24-, 52- and 62-Across? 42 Fishy bagel
topper
43 Dark beer
variety
46 Berry in a
smoothie bowl 47 Cheerful, as an
outlook 48 Prepare to
regift, perhaps 50 Story with
Achilles 52 Fruity breakfast
biscuit 57 Biblical sister
of Rachel 60 Debtor’s note 61 Ohio city where Goodyear is headquartered 62 “Saturday Night Live” cast member from 1980 to 1984 66 Chicago airport
code
67 Jerry Maguire’s
profession in “Jerry Maguire” 68 “Twice-Told
___”
69 G.I. entertainers 70 Opposite of
sparse 71 Replay option 72 Stitch up
Down
1 Drink suckerupper
2 “Bear” in a eucalyptus forest
3 “We’re waiting
...”
4 Very beginning 5 Hosp.
procedure 6 Mature, as
wine
7 Ibsen’s “___
Gabler”
8 Fur tycoon
John Jacob 9 “The Purloined
Letter” author 10 Earns and earns and earns 11 “Money ___
everything” 12 National park with the notorious Angels Landing hike
13 “Cómo ___
usted?” 19 Refuses to
share
21 Above
25 Corn interiors 26 Kerfuffle
27 Lilly of pharmaceuticals 30 Stinky 31 Biblical son of
Seth
32 Smokin’ hot 33 It broke up on
Dec. 26, 1991 34 Small snack 36 Jiffy
37 Done in, as a
dragon 41 Cheery tune 44 Spiny sea
creatures 45 Letter after
sigma
47 Set of antlers 49 Strait-laced 51 Words after “because” that don’t really explain 53 Decisive
victories
54 Of the ear 55 Viking language 56 Fund, as a
university 57 Metal that an alchemist “converts” into gold
58 Slight
advantage 59 Port
of Yemen 63 Summer in
Québec
64 West Bank grp. 65 ___ and haw