The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Nonmagical sort, in the Harry Potter universe 7 What’s found in cafés but not coffee shops? 13 Spanish loves 14 St. Bernard or mastiff, often 15 Hoity-toity types

16 Goofus 17 Wireless speaker brand

18 Place 19 Fencing

equipment 20 Shade akin to

fuchsia

23 Part of Q.E.D. 24 ___ blind 27 Dispenser of

drafts

28 “Black gold” or

“Texas tea” 30 Out of the

office 32 Nine-digit ID 34 One leaving its

pad quickly 39 Astronomical objects represented by the circled letters in this puzzle 42 One righting

writing

43 “The lowest form of humor — when you don’t think of it first,” per Oscar Levant

44 “The Song of the ___” (Willa Cather novel) 45 First Chinese

dynasty 47 Broadcaster of “The Price Is Right” for more than four decades 49 Letters

requesting help 50 Back talk 54 Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, for two 57 Offering in

church 59 Noche’s

counterpart 60 Nevada senator

Jacky 64 Low-calorie

cookie spinoff 66 Adverb in a

contract 67 Eccentrics 68 Produce

oxidation in 69 Author

Hemingway 70 Tablet tool

Down

1 Service that might be in Latin

2 “Yeah, that won’t work for me”

3 “I’m listening

...”

4 Many a wedding cake topper 5 Unleashes on 6 Intro to

sociology? 7 “Evita” setting:

Abbr.

8 Word with tax

or cheat

9 Type of car whose name comes from the French word for “cut”

10 Toon hunting for a “scwewy wabbit” 11 Site of a mythical lion slaying 12 Romantic

rendezvous 14 “Me, too!” 16 Patty’s place 18 ___ Challenge (famous taste test) 21 Gut-related 22 Some shortterm rentals 24 Hightail it 25 Was behind 26 Island between Java and Lombok

29 W.C.

31 As of now

33 Bit of shut-eye 35 450, in ancient

Rome 36 Sorento and

Telluride 37 Amazon-owned home Wi-Fi brand 38 Scolding

sounds 40 Part of some “Red” or “White” uniforms

41 St. ___

(Caribbean isle) 46 Some German

cars

48 Word on the

___

50 “Uncle Tom’s

Cabin” author 51 Broadcaster 52 Oktoberfest

vessel

53 Place to wash

up?

55 Son of, in Arabic surnames 56 “___, not ___!” 58 Approx. when

planes take off 61 Circus barker? 62 “Not you,

too!?” 63 Disappointing

R.S.V.P.s 65 Over 100, say 66 Gives birth to

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