NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 “Delish!”
5 “___ Sexy” (1991 dance hit)
10 Single at a bar, perhaps
13 Brown powder
15 Brown powder
16 Costa ___
17 Popular pops
18 Point a finger at
19 Fan fave
20 Kennel sound
21 Southern newspaper that William Faulkner once contributed to, with “The”
24 Prefix with beat or futurism
26 Toy dog from Tibet
27 Sport with Native American origins
30 Melodramatist
31 Kind of saxophone
32 Rapper for whom Harvard’s Hip-Hop Fellowship is named
34 Get cozy
39 Cultivars known for their yellow flesh
43 “Excuse me”
44 Do some patching, say
45 Book after Joel
46 Compadre
48 Quantity that’s tied to one’s carbon footprint
51 Second way of viewing things, figuratively
56 Appear
57 What a solver might growl after catching on to this puzzle’s theme?
59 Genre for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones 62 Mine find 63 Mother-of-pearl 64 Motorola
smartphone 66 Flubs it
67 Not using profanity, as a comedian
68 “___ is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope”: Aristotle 69 Central concept of philosopher Zhuangzi’s teachings 70 Repeatedly
comments (on) 71 The first one in The New York Times appeared in 1970
Down
1 Southwest desert plant
2 Dock
3 Metric of grossness
4 Classic comedy figure who sported a bowl cut
5 Certain warhead transport, in brief
6 Phoenix and Washington, e.g.
7 Low culture, disparagingly
8 Brass band sound
9 Showily deferential
10 Neaten
11 Clickable things
12 Prefix with -lithic
14 Lone Star State athlete
16 Certifier of music sales, for short
22 Apple devices run on it
23 “Along ___ spider …”
25 Palm part
27 Easy two-pointer
28 ___-Seltzer
29 Not Ready for Prime Time Players show, for short
33 Where a zipper gets caught?
35 Put on
36 Popular hot-andsour Thai dish
37 Some summer babies
38 To be: Lat.
40 Headgear for many an extreme athlete
41 Using intuition
42 Have
47 Syllables said with fingers in one’s ears
49 Night sch. class
50 Thin, as a voice
51 Small screech, for example
52 Actress Birch
53 Green power option, informally
54 A scallop has up to 200 of these
55 Not so cold
58 Second place at a math competition?
60 Symbol of highness
61 Focus problem, for short
65 Joey of children’s fiction