NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Diminishes in

intensity 7 Resident of

Oman or Yemen 11 Breaks you wish

would end? 14 “Sweetheart” 15 Protein- rich

vegan staple 16 “Do ___ disturb”

( motel sign) 17 * Iron Man’s love

interest 19 ___ Jima 20 Mean dog sound 21 Hit one out of

the park 23 Trim, as a

photograph 26 * Intimate

chitchat 29 Old- fashioned address organizer 31 Most correspondence nowadays 32 Unsettled

feeling 33 Actor McKellen 34 Display 37 Ford Escape or Jeep Cherokee, for short 38 “Shut up already!”… or what you can do to the start of the answer to each starred clue 42 Cheer at a fútbol

match 43 Goes out with 45 Slip-___ 46 Mistreat 48 Disney fawn 50 Diminished in value, as a currency 52 * Annual Thanksgiving Day run 55 Refuse to admit 56 Copper + zinc 57 Came to light 59 “Deadly” offense 60 * Knit headwear that may have a tufted ball at its end 66 Stephen Colbert’s Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, e. g. 67 Part of the roof where icicles form 68 ___ Beach, Calif. 69 Admonition in a

movie theater 70 Shadowbox 71 Former celebrity

Down

1 Concert haul? 2 “Ciao” 3 Swiss mountain 4 Number one

position 5 Fair and

balanced 6 Mexican shawl 7 Ring- shaped reef 8 Spoil 9 Sternward 10 Complete

rubbish 11 * Classic comedy set at the fictional Faber College 12 Carpentry pin 13 Bird on a birth

announcement 18 ___ fixe ( menu

notation) 22 Soul singer

Redding 23 Lacking

refinement 24 Charming

scoundrel 25 * Offer of

reconciliation 27 Page ( through) 28 All: Prefix 30 Prosecutors,

briefly 33 “No ___, ands or

buts” 35 Jimmy ___, reporter for the Daily Planet 36 Like overgrown

gardens 39 ___ Keith, singer with 20 # 1 country hits 40 Gram or dram 41 Indenting

computer key 44 Fifth Avenue

retailer 47 Perpetual

troublemakers 49 Pigsties 50 Nerd 51 Prima ballerina 52 Cookbook amts. 53 Dickens’s ___

Heep 54 Indy 500 car 58 Chips and popcorn, in commercialese 61 “Singin’ in the Rain” dance style 62 Fertilizable cells 63 Sever 64 Santa ___, Calif. 65 72, for many golf

courses