The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Reality checks? 9 Raze

16 Austin Powers

catchphrase 17 Family tree 18 Highway

crossing

19 Fail

20 N.B.A.

impossibility 21 Perp alert 23 Mob man 24 Sequentially

arranged 28 Explains in

detail 32 Container weight allowances 33 Clever quip 35 LAX scanners (but not lax ones, one hopes)

36 Unit of cellphone reception 37 Uncle Sam’s

land, informally 40 Dating axiom … or a hint to interpreting four pairs of answers in this puzzle 46 “Natural” at

the craps table 47 “Unbelievable!,” in internet shorthand 48 Hypothetical

degree

49 Road runners? 52 Jazz great

Shaw

54 Like an impromptu remark

56 Keep wearing 58 Name for two

Spice Girls 59 Well-seasoned 61 Mobile ___ 62 Rehearsed to

perfection 66 Excite, as a

crowd 71 Conforming to accepted values 72 Some desert

dwellers 73 Eerie

74 Many countryand-western dances

Admit (to) “Now I remember who sang ‘Take On Me’!” “Washington Week” airer One being quizzed Conductors may conduct them

“Never ___ ever ...” Boston’s Mass. ___

Lab liquids It goes viral in winter 10 Director Justin of the “Fast & Furious” franchise 11 “Wait, there’s

more …”

12 Prop used for

kickoffs 13 Entering after

the bell

14 Food items originally called Froffles

15 It may glow in

the dark

22 Luau side

dish

24 Title role for Tom Hanks in 2022 25 Scraping

tools

26 Arrange loosely 27 Without ice or

mixer 29 “Agreed!” 30 Where trailers

wind up

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9

DOWN

Samuel A. Donaldson

31 Spanish love 34 Start to fix? 36 “You got it!” 38 Colorful Coke

brand

39 End of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” 41 Place to put the

dough

42 Email function depicted with a paper plane icon 43 Brasilia-to-Rio

dir. 44 Playground

retort 45 “America”

pronoun

50 “I wish!”

51 Jets pass in it,

for short 52 Lead dogs 53 Split hairs

again? 54 Where Lear exclaims “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” 55 Despite the fact that, informally 57 ___ cheese 58 Video format 60 Tidy up, in a

way 63 Bad-mouth 64 L.G.B.T. History

Mo.

65 Mart start 67 Dog on a cat? 68 Emmynominated Issa 69 Economic

fig.

70 End of days?