The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Suggest without
saying
6 “Up, up and ___!”
10 Six years, for a U.S.
senator
14 Birds that honk
15 Any of 116 in Japan’s Inazawa Grand Bowl, the world’s largest bowling alley
16 Major work of art
17 *Beat by a little, as
in joke telling
18 *Unfaithful to, as a
lover
20 Recipe meas.
21 Word repeated before “Pants on fire!”
22 Network behind the streaming service Peacock
23 Vessel for a frozen
lake
26 Commercials
28 Fashionable
31 *Chocolate bar named for a group of literary swordsmen
34 Traitorous Corleone brother in “The Godfather Part II”
35 Calf-length pants
36 _ _ _-Cola
39 Keebler mascot
41 Have people over
42 ___ Fenty, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
45 E-cigarette smoker
48 *Like a space measured by length, width, depth and time
53 “Uhh, I mean …”
54 Prefix with cycle
55 Tarnished
reputation
56 Where baby food might wind up, if not in the baby’s mouth
58 Went “Ptui!”
60 Aries animal
61 What the first word of the answer to each starred clue counts, with respect to the second word
64 Exaggerated kind
of journalism
66 Back of the foot
67 Artist Magritte
68 Astronomical belt
wearer
69 Concludes
70 Calculates sumthing?
71 Baked ___ (side
dish)
DOWN
1 “Let me handle
this!”
2 Good-hearted sort,
from Yiddish
3 Eye, slangily
4 Sch. in Baton Rouge
5 “Mm-hmm”
6 Data point for a
pilot
7 H2O, to a toddler
8 Jacket with a name
derived from Inuit
9 “So close, ___ so
far”
10 Cleopatra’s is still
undiscovered
11 Achilles or Aeneas
12 Sprint
13 Flavor enhancer imparting umami, for short
19 Popular photo app,
familiarly
21 Shiny fabric
24 “Let’s not play
favorites”
25 “___ the ramparts
we watched …”
27 Mo. when winter
officially starts
29 Part of the eye
30 “Hey, you there!”
32 Do a puzzle
33 Nora who wrote “When Harry Met Sally …”
36 Place for an
Americano in Paris?
37 Unpleasant smell
38 Like feta cheese in
a Greek salad
40 Celebs’ followings
43 Uzo ___ of “Orange
Is the New Black”
44 Writer Anaïs
46 H.S. sophomore’s
exam
47 Festival following Ramadan, informally
49 Wasn’t honest with
50 Fantasy land in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
51 Its basin covers roughly 40% of South America
52 Sour fruit
57 Misfortunes
59 Await a decision
61 ___/her pronouns
62 Currency with the
symbol ¥
63 Undergarment with
cups
64 Lump, as of
whipped cream
65 Prize that a
prospector pries