NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Builder of a papery nest 5 Brand of imported “bier” 11 Stadium souvenir 14 “Hairspray” mom
15 “High Sierra” co-star
16 Make, in math 17 Go-getter
18 Wood nymph / Independent person 20 Cold-blooded killer
22 “The King ___” 23 It gives many Scotches their smoky taste 24 Win at the Olympics / Cheap jewelry material
27 “I’d be delighted” 29 Impish sort 30 Grandson of Adam
31 Prophet who said “But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream”
32 “Darn!”
35 Request from 39 Location for round-the-clock monitoring, in brief
40 Drove a golf ball / Gain strength from 42 ___ pro nobis 43 Numbers game 45 ___ Point, Calif. 46 Praise loudly 47 Misfortunes 49 Old Spanish coins
51 Wagner heroine 54 Goodyear blowout / “Everything must go” event 56 Zap
57 Act of digitization 59 Chocolate ___ 60 Waterworks parts / Amygdalae 63 Openings for “To Tell the Truth”
66 Frozen dessert eponym
67 Rapper who had an infamous rivalry with Tupac
68 Brand with a paw print in its logo
69 Hi-___
70 School board? 71 One of two options in five squares in this puzzle
DOWN
1 Join
2 Kerfuffle
3 Breaks curfew, maybe
4 Han Solo claims to have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 of these
5 PC key / Sitcom ET
6 Many a work by Banksy
7 Devote, as time 8 All square
9 Iago, under Othello
10 Hack
11 Felt something 12 Common default font 13 Trivial
19 “Not for me”
21 ___ Tour
24 Lag behind / Weak 25 Transmission repair franchise 26 Renaissance Faire adjective 28 Lollygag
30 Boris Johnson’s alma mater 33 Traffic lights you can’t go through 34 Nabokov title character 36 Nonprimate with fingerprints that are nearly identical to a human’s
37 Bay window 38 One of two options in five squares in this puzzle
40 Snitched / Throw in the cards 41 Jamie of “M*A*S*H” 44 Backsplash installer 46 Attacks a job with gusto 48 Nielsen of “The Naked Gun” 50 Caterpillar roll ingredient
51 Lay to rest / Deduce 52 Tannery product 53 Green-lights 54 Zesty flavors / Part of a Dracula costume 55 Country with the largest population of vegetarians
58 Pen 61 “Pygmalion” author’s monogram 62 Darn, e.g. 64 Land-bound bird 65 Glasgow-tolondon dir.