Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Reality checks? 9 Raze
16 Austin Powers
catchphrase 17 Family tree 18 Highway crossing
19 Fail 20 N.B.A. impossibility 21 Perp alert 23 Mob man 24 Sequentially
arranged 28 Explains in
detail 32 Container weight allowances 33 Clever quip 35 LAX scanners (but not lax ones, one hopes)
36 Unit of cellphone reception 37 Uncle Sam's
land, informally 40 Dating axiom ... or a hint to interpreting four pairs of answers in this puzzle 46 "Natural" at the craps table 47 "Unbelievable!," in internet shorthand 48 Hypothetical
degree
49 Road runners? 52 Jazz great
Shaw
54 Like an impromptu remark
56 Keep wearing 58 Name for two
Spice Girls 59 Well-seasoned 61 Mobile ___ 62 Rehearsed to
perfection 66 Excite, as a
crowd 71 Conforming to
accepted values 72 Some desert
dwellers
73 Eerie
74 Many countryand-western dances
Down
1 Admit (to) 2 "Now I remember who sang ‘Take On Me'!" 3 "Washington
Week" airer 4 One being
quizzed 5 Conductors may conduct them 6 "Never ___ ever ..." 7 Boston's Mass. ___
8 Lab liquids 9 It goes viral in winter 10 Director Justin of the "Fast & Furious" franchise 11 "Wait, there's
more ..." 12 Prop used for
kickoffs 13 Entering after
the bell
14 Food items originally called Froffles
15 It may glow in
the dark
22 Luau side dish 24 Title role for Tom Hanks in 2022 25 Scraping tools 26 Arrange loosely 27 Without ice or
mixer 29 "Agreed!" 30 Where trailers
wind up 31 Spanish love 34 Start to fix? 36 "You got it!" 38 Colorful Coke
brand
39 End of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" 41 Place to put the
dough
42 Email function depicted with a paper plane icon 43 Brasilia-to-Rio dir. 44 Playground retort 45 "America"
pronoun
50 "I wish!"
51 Jets pass in it,
for short 52 Lead dogs 53 Split hairs
again? 54 Where Lear exclaims "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" 55 Despite the fact that, informally 57 ___ cheese 58 Video format 60 Tidy up, in a
way 63 Bad-mouth 64 L.G.B.T. History
Mo.
65 Mart start 67 Dog on a cat? 68 Emmynominated Issa 69 Economic fig. 70 End of days?