NY Times Puzzle No. 0122
ACROSS
1 “Make it snappy!”
5 Metal for a
blacksmith
9 “Well, shucks!”
14 Bug bite
annoyance
15 Put money in the
bank
16 Emotional states
17 What the suffix
“-er” may mean
18 Entree served in
a bowl
19 “Rainbow” fish
20 *British publishing house founded in 1935
23 Cookie with “Stuf”
inside
24 Lover boys
27 Reverse of “It is I”
30 Abbr. meaning “Be wary of looking at this in the office”
33 Having the means
36 “I gotta decline”
37 In one’s birthday
suit
38 Sea: Fr.
39 *Certain ice cream or soap product
42 Cambridge sch. that sends out acceptance letters on Pi Day
43 Singer Paul with the memoir “My Way”
45 Produce
whoppers
46 Soy-based protein
source
48 Went kaput, as a
battery
49 Fashion legend
Wang
51 Hermann who wrote philosophical fiction
52 Impede the
progress of
34 Numbered
classical pieces 54
Wander
56 Subject of “the talk” about sex … or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues
61 Habitat’s flora and
fauna
63 Discontinued Apple music player
64 Midday rests
66 What a score of 70 or less signifies on a common standardized test
67 Spill the beans
68 Lumberjack’s
target
69 Prefix with media or cultural
Spiral down the sink, say
71 A single time
70
Asset in playing Whac-A-Mole
2 “I can’t take it any
longer!”
3 Farm measure
4 Minors who look to be headed to the majors
5 Magazine
installment
6 Mete out
7 Kitchen fixture
8 Inexperienced
gamer, informally
9 Playground retort
10 One who makes his living with his hands
11 *Bodily response to something eerie
12 End of a school’s
URL
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13 Winter clock
setting in N.Y.C.
21 Trait of the fabled
fisherman’s wife
22 “Alternatively
…???”
25 Songs from the
’60s and ’70s, say
26 Be quietly furious
27 Wanderers
28 Order to a
birthday child
29 *Thanksgiving
football game
31 Contemptuous
expression
32 “Mahvelous!” 35 Figured out, as a
mystery
40 Compete (for)
41 Goal of an intervention, maybe
44 “Enough
denying!”
47 Token of past
times
50 Actor
Schwarzenegger
53 Baghdad citizen
55 “As ironic as it
sounds …” 57 Place for a construction project
58 Mimicked
59 Make, as money
60 Display size or
camera res, e.g.
61 Antiracist movement since 2013, in brief
62 Letters acknowledging debt
65 “’I ___,’ said the blind man, as he picked up a hammer and saw”