The New York Times crossword puzzle
No. 1109
Across
1 Network for Norah O’Donnell
4 One with many priors, maybe
9 Leaflike plant part
14 NASA’s “all good”
15 Like 80% of the Arabian Peninsula
16 Spoiler alert!
It’s bacteria!
17 Workers at the rear of some flat boats?
19 Kind of situation that’s hopeless
20 Activity that involves shape shifting
21 Musical Horne
23 Squeeze (out)
24 “The very ___!”
25 Result of dropping a tray of coffee drinks?
28 Michelle of “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
30 Cousins of cassowaries
31 Keyboard key not found on smartphones
34 Two-handed gesture
36 Shrunken snack item
39 “Not that shrink!”?
43 Dried version of the almost-ripe poblano
44 Last bit
45 See 65-Down
46 Slosh against, as the shore
49 “Ah”
51 Tally of samples at a geology competition?
54 Salt and pepper or peanut butter and jelly
58 It’s rarely taken at night
59 Party game choice
60 Pigment akin to ocher or umber
62 Love of Charles Foster Kane in “Citizen Kane”
64 Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle
66 Coveted cup
67 “My ___” (medieval term of address)
68 TV dad on “Black-ish”
69 Finks
70 Has a bias
71 Appropriate answer for this spot in the puzzle
Down
1 Sights around Joshua Tree National Park
2 Regularly checking the time, maybe
3 Pass quickly (over)
4 Prosecco alternative, familiarly
5 Iconic feature of the Who’s “My Generation”
6 Seat in Parliament?
7 Scott who wrote “The Black Pearl”
8 Bad listening ability
9 One running for Congress?
10 Prefix with -cide 11 Confidenceboosting corporate attire
12 How most stormtroopers look in “Star Wars”
13 Having wrinkles
18 Grow threadbare
22 Unspecified ordinal
26 Excellent, in dated slang
27 Surname at the O.K. Corral
29 Special effects devices at a rock concert
31 Org. with grants for asbestos removal
32 Doubly hyphenated fig.
33 Huge
35 Academic’s credential
37 Surveillance org.
38 Shortening used for shortening
40 Toast
41 Cleveland abuts it
42 Indication to stop playing, perhaps
47 Former Arkansas governor Hutchinson
48 Delight
50 One-on-one Olympic event
51 Makes out, in Britain
52 ___ pants
53 Start of a counting rhyme
55 Part of some cells
56 Store, as ashes
57 Follower of G or X
61 Full moon period on the Roman lunar calendar
63 Fix unfairly
65 With
45-Across, Northwest airport, in brief