NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Director who said “Horror films don’t create fear. They release it”
6 Center cut?
9 Length just over one centimeter
13 Entertainment one might view from a box
14 Half of a rhyming game name
16 Mine, in Marseille
17 Desert near Sinai
18 Indecent
19 “It’s a ___”
20 Natural find with a cavity
21 Whole alternative
23 Major Japanese company HQ’D in a 43-story tower shaped like a rocket
24 Capital of Washington?
27 Rubber overshoe
29 Shows indecision, in a way
32 ___ Verde, national park in Colorado
35 Org. concerned with cyberwarfare
36 Melber of MSNBC
37 Infamous presidential denial
40 Seasonal phenomenon depicted six times in this puzzle
44 Gave advice
45 Desire for a lonely hart?
46 Childish Gambino’s record label
47 He actually died about 1,500 years before the fiddle was invented
48 Quizzes
49 “The $10,000 Pyramid” host
52 Person who might call a child a bairn
54 “This again?!”
55 Tea brand
58 How some money is held
62 Be overly sweet
64 Classic N.Y.C. cinema name 66 Food that can be eaten to help with anemia
67 Sprinted
68 Place for a brace
69 Día de los Reyes month
70 Drink that should not be served shaken
71 Tonsil treater, in brief
72 Freshen
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1 Third-most common Chinese surname in America
2 Competitive poker?
3 State flower of Utah
4 Guiding statements
5 Jet black, as hair
6 ___ de mer
7 They may precede cries of “GOOOOAAAAL!”
8 Peddle
9 Isn’t out of
10 Our bodies need 20+ different kinds to function 11 Some seating sections
12 Lawyer in “To Kill a Mockingbird”
15 Cool cat’s “Copy that”
22 Wide ray
25 Male members of the House of Saud
26 Some people on deck
28 Its lowest score is 120, in brief
29 Show indecision, in a way
30 Name of seven Danish kings
31 D-F-A is one, in music
33 What you do just for grins?
34 Ticks off
38 Many a surgeon, informally
39 Corner piece
41 Conceal, with “away”
42 Pass
43 The Legend of Zelda console, in brief
48 When many businesses open
49 Passageways
50 Structure built in a catenary arch shape
51 On a ___
53 Edmonton N.H.L. player
56 Ending with euro
57 Animals on Nebraska’s state quarter
59 Like some numbers and scores
60 Withered, climate-wise
61 Toot one’s own horn
63 “___, verily”
65 Up to this point