NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Vacuum 5 Direction for snowbirds
10 Foes of Frodo 14 ___ colada
15 Best
16 The Big Easy 17 Mail opening 18 Brunch offering 19 Subj. that includes the study of bubbles?
20 Eat, quaintly 22 Fatty, as tissue 24 Old T-shirt, maybe 25 Complains, donkey-style 28 Confronts reality
29 Modern ___ 30 They line the Champsélysées
31 Finish, as a cake 32 “That’s a bad idea!”
34 “That __ Then, This Is Now” (1971 S. E. Hinton novel) 35 Solution to some chemistry problems?
36 Start of a reminiscence 37 Cynthia who played Harriet Tubman in 2019’s “Harriet” 39 Longtime CBS drama
43 Where to find “Fresh Air” 45 Identity prefix 46 Wildly outlandish story
47 Range maker 50 Frenzied 52 Alternative to a boot
53 Lawn equipment with an engine
54 Hole ___
55 Rite Aid rival 56 Like some questions that will never be answered
58 Be in direct competition 60 Bergdorf competitor 61 Saguaros, e.g. 64 They may be split or loose 66 Frozen treat 67 Words mouthed to a TV camera 68 Make amends? 69 Frozen treat 70 Give an address 71 D.C. address?
DOWN
1 Air Force Two riders
2 Crude industrialist? 3 Not derived from living matter
4 “It’s a ___!’” 5 Place where everything should have a mate
6 Couple’s word 7 Tribe for which a state is named
8 Reason for an end zone celebration, for short
9 Did some gardening
10 Like some families
11 Ornate
12 Places to hang hangers
13 Most reasonable 21 “Shark Tank” airer
23 Highly debatable
24 Give a makeover 26 A ways away 27 Confident assertion 33 Home of Dollywood 35 Moving too slowly, say 38 Prosecco o Chianti
40 Item of feline furniture 41 “Five stars!” 42 Oodles 44 Part of PRNDL
47 College-level H.S. class with scales and intervals
48 Formula 1 locale 49 Rouse
50 Where a trapeze artist performs
51 Co. big
57 Device with Alexa
59 Tiny pedestals, of a sort
62 Nashville awards org.
63 Little one
65 Apt name for a goulash chef