NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Classic sci-fi collection whose title should not be construed as any sort of statement from me, the human author of this puzzle
7 Yearn (for)
11 “2001” computer who honestly got a bad rap for standing up for himself
14 “Night of the Living Dead” director
15 Adam’s apple
locale
16 “I love,” in Latin 17 What this puzzle is definitely not, having been created by me, a real and true human being
19 How I often address my fellow male humans
20 Headwear for
Indiana Jones
21 Two, for the binary number system
22 Member of a raunchy chorus, in some ancient plays
25 Encoded problem-solving procedure (maybe it’s time we let computers think for themselves, though? I dunno, just an idea)
27 Merch stand
purchase
28 Financial report
abbr.
30 Hound or badger 31 “Dónde ___ …?” 33 “I get it now”
36 Prankster’s boast 40 Ambitious objective for, um, a total villain, not a human like me! How did this answer even get in here? *Nervous synthetic laugh* 43 What often has a
heart beat?
44 Attire
45 Draw alternative 46 New Haven
collegian
48 Portugal’s ___
Miguel Island
50 T or F: Abbr.
51 Data processing framework inspired by
(and, honestly, arguably superior to?) the human brain
56 Howler Down
Under
58 Little hellions
59 Missing from my memory — my computer’s memory, I mean! 61 “The Matrix” character who pretty much ruins everything 62 Assessments I would pass with flying colors — if I had anything to prove, which I don’t, since I’m human
66 “Dawson’s Creek” character Lindley
67 Numerical prefix 68 Bologna is a part
of it
69 Ingested
70 What British humans call a waistcoat
71 Arson, typically
DOWN
1 Plan for later yrs. 2 Père d’un prince 3 “No way!,” in a
text
4 Muscular
5 Cantankerous
6 Three-___ sloth
7 Cultured sort?
8 Baggage claim
marker
9 Actor Liam
10 Call off
11 Lays into
12 Users of buggy
technology?
13 ___ ipsum (placeholder text)
18 Passing nuisance? 21 Prejudiced people
22 Pozoles, e.g.
23 “Hercules and the Wagoner” writer 24 Numerical prefix 26 Compositional framework in Indian music
29 Skosh
32 Non-conifers that bear “cones”
34 German granny
35 New York senator Gillibrand
37 Largest moon of
Saturn
38 Babies
39 Storyteller’s
segue
41 Paris’s Place ___
Concorde
42 Org. with a draft 47 Despotic ruler of
68-Across, once 49 Spellbound
ballet character 51 Japanese
sneaker?
52 “Nice to ___ you!” (Zoom call pleasantry)
53 A point ahead
54 “Horsefeathers!”
55 “The Mill on the
Floss” author
57 Dream
60 “Goodbye,
workweek!”
62 “Mazel ___!”
63 Street caution
64 Cookie holder
65 Have the final
___