NY Times Puzzle No. 0130
ACROSS
1 Fitzgerald with nine recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame
5 Frat dudes
9 “At Last” singer
James
13 Toss-up at a
football game?
14 Manga genre involving giant robots
16 ___ well done
(good work)
17 Is sound in
principle
19 Yellowfin or
albacore
20 Poker variant that, despite its name, did not originate in Nebraska
21 Stately trees
23 Turner in a historic
rebellion
24 Weaponry on
wheels 28 Gradually
withdraw (from)
29 Pronouncement
30 Div. in the N.H.L.’s Eastern Conference
33 “___ a date!”
35 Sound coming
from a bay?
38 Plummets
precipitously
43 Singer Washington with three recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame
44 Cry after being
shocked
45 Woman with a
habit
46 Doolittle of “My
Fair Lady”
49 Bourbon order
specification
52 Garment that may have spaghetti straps
56 Lead-in to pod
57
58
61
From
Simpleton
What might be found in nesting boxes
63 Bodies of advisory experts … or, when reinterpreted as an imperative, a hint to 17-, 24-, 38- and 52-Across
66 Sly trick
67
Witch trials town
68 Termite-resistant
hardwood
69 Gumbo or goulash
70
71
1
2
3
Solidifies
“Scooping since 1928” brand
DOWN
Fading repetition
Weaving machine
Shade close to lavender
4 “That’s for sure!”
5
X Series carmaker
6 Stephen of “The
Crying Game”
7
Four duos
8 Put aside for a
while
9
Gobble
10 Three-way road
layout
11 Not musically
dissonant, say
12 Lessen
15 Packing heat
18
“Ditto”
22 Padded parts in
soccer
25 Something a person in jail might make
PUZZLE BY FREDDIE CHENG
26
Not for
27 Rapper/actor on “Law & Order: SVU”
30 Make sense,
with “up”
31 Lead-in to -pod
32 High-flying metaphor for independence
34 ___-high
36 Ungulate found backward in “ungulate”
37
Layer of 61-Across
39 Washed out
40 Hindu god of
destruction
41 Galactic time
spans
42 Really impresses
47 Citrus peel
scrapings
48 They may come with big waves in Waikiki
50 “Look ___ this way
…”
51 Until now
53
54
55 Yearned (for)
59 What a check mark may signify
60 Disapproving
tongue clicks
62 Work with
thread
64 Souvenir for a
basketball team
52 Gushes 65
On the up and up
Taxpaying option