NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
1 Guadalajara goodbye
6 Puts away, as the groceries?
10 Nonvegan pie crust ingredient
14 Melee
15 Popular site for tech reviews
16 Composer Stravinsky
17 With 69-Across, beginner’s downhill challenge … or a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters
18 Curved molding
19 Quick snack
20 Part of AWOL
22 Most workers on a kibbutz
24 Use a divining rod
26 Club-wielding bogeywoman
27 Top toy for a holiday?
30 Jai ___
31 Reddish hue
32 Midnight “excursion” to the fridge
34 Automaker based in Hiroshima
38 Sighed sounds
39 Spend indulgently
41 Epileptologist’s test, for short
42 Soup base
44 Jon Arbuckle’s dog
45 Manipulative type
46 Large paper unit
ACROSS
48 Hyundai compact named North American Car of the Year in 2021
50 Shook on it
53 Peevish moods
54 Braggadocious
56 Easygoing reply to “I’m sorry!”
60 Tush
61 Supply-and-demand subj.
63 “Is it too audacious of me?”
64 Beat narrowly, with “out”
65 Actor Idris
66 More arid
67 Happy shouts
68 Girl Scout’s accessory
69 See 17-Across
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1 Pop group with the 1976 hit “Money, Money, Money”
2 Clobber
3 Johns, in Scotland
4 Took responsibility for something
5 Subtle signal that might accompany a wink
6 Lead-in to freak or friendly
7 Actress
Harmon of TNT’S “Rizzoli & Isles”
8 Shirts lacking buttons, informally
9 Waxy biochemical compound
10 Monrovia’s land
11 Quick on one’s feet
12 Flatbreads that may be served with saag paneer
13 Garb
21 Insignificant sort
23 Best effort, informally
25 Olympic event with gates
27 Visually blah
28 German industrial region
29 Competitor of Petro-canada
30 Oscar winner Brody
33 Contraceptive insert, in brief
35 Gusto
36 A couple of bucks?
37 Taj Mahal city
39 Small paper unit
40 Freezing
43 Major letdowns for Rapunzel?
45 Fix, as tangles of hair or traffic
47 Revenue for Madison Ave. firms
49 Not seeing eye to eye
50 Downton, for one
51 Cheese that’s “not badda”
52 Long-limbed and lean
53 Ones not inclined to make sweeping gestures?
55 Sch. that used to bring a live bear onto the field at its home football games
57 Small jazz combo
58 Pager alert
59 The Emerald
Isle
62 “I’ll pass”