NY Times Puzzle No. 0319
ACROSS
1 Kids’ guessing
game
5 Spider’s spot
8 Common car
rentals
14 Trifling
15 Vein contents
16 Soldier’s shoulder
adornment
17 Parent dressed up at a pride parade, perhaps?
19 Booth alternative
at a diner
20 “Slippery” tree
21 T.S.A.
requirements
22 Vietnamese noodle
soup
23 Cryptographer’s
creation
24 Some family
reunion attendees
26 Choice between a haircut and manicure?
28 Achy 29 Word after black or
before box
31 Llama habitat
32 Oklahoma city named for a Tennyson character
33 Org. with a lot of
returns
34 Toward the rear
36 “Meet me under
Big Ben”?
41 “___ bother?”
42 Prefix with -metric
or -logic
43 Alan of “Bridge of
Spies”
46 Musical based on
a comic strip
50 Starchy tropical
root
51 Erotica
52 “Continue with your routine, cheerleaders”?
55 Milk curdler in
cheesemaking
57 Shopper’s aid
58
59 Low mil. rank
60 Lentils, on an
Indian menu
61 Sticks (to)
63 Game break
… or a hint to interpreting the first parts of 17-, 26-, 36-, and 52-Across?
65
66 Savings for the
golden yrs.
67
68 Good day for a
hunt
69
70
1
2 Marine mammal
that barks
3 Tender cut of beef
4
5
6 Slices of history
7 Implore
8 Wild animal’s
trail
9 Thirst quencher in
Québec
10 Scottish king murdered by Macbeth
11 “Curiously strong”
mint
12 Part of a record
player or pine tree
13
16
Kind of PC port
Come back in
Hershey toffee bar
Bear’s lair
Farm enclosures
DOWN
Gargantuan
Strong desire
Skilled writer, say
What an accent mark indicates
Reverberation
18 Go kaput 22 Capitol wheelerdealer, informally
25 Give up
26 Chef’s creation
27 Alliance that Ukraine seeks to join, in brief
30 Highbrow
34 Maker of Aspire
laptops
35 Architectural
diagram
37 Bowls over
38
39 Crunch of cereal?
40 Yukon gold rush
site
44 “You wish!”
45 Features of bucks,
but not does
46 Shining brightly
47 “I’m completely at
a loss”
48 Eats between
meals
49 Purpose
50 Keyboard key next
to Q 53 The “Q” in
L.G.B.T.Q.
54 Cold War power,
for short
56 Pointy-eared being
59 Give a hoot
62 Highlighted path on Google Maps: Abbr.
63 Kept out of sight