The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Kind of case
in grammar: Abbr. 4 Pandora and others 8 “Autumn frosts have ___ July”: Lewis Carroll 13 Vichyssoise ingredient 15 ___ cheese
16 Summer camp sight 17 Famous Alan whose last name shares three of the four letters of ALAN 18 Greenhouse gas
mitigators
20 Events with booths 22 Big Four bank,
informally 23 Contraction at the
start of a sentence 24 Olympics event
since 1964 26 Children’s author Lowry 28 Third in a horror series 34 Where you might go
for a spell?
35 Abbr. on some
natural gas bills 36 Betting game
37 Some S & L offerings 39 Intermittently
42 City west of Florence 43 ___ Railway, backdrop of “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
45 Fix, as a price 46 Speaker’s place 47 Administerer of
citizenship tests 52 Lummox
53 What’s packed
in a backpack
54 Fill
57 Small bite, say
59 Dunk alternative 63 Churchgoer, e.g. 66 Frostbite site 67 Popular sans-serif font 68 ___-eyed
69 It can be bounced off someone
70 Like chimneys 71 Uptown, so to speak 72 Notoriously hard thing to define
DOWN
1 “Frozen” character 2 First name in 28-Across
3 “The Last ___” 4 Start of a kindergarten song 5 One end of an umbilical cord 6 Prefix with -scope 7 Hard to get
8 Say “Yeah, right!,” say 9 Conductor’s announcement 10 Over
11 Speck
12 Suffix with bald or bold
14 Co-star of 28-Across 19 Tearjerker?
21 Big ___ 25 Country straddling the equator 27 Foundational belief 28 Lifesaving supply 29 Kind of pushup 30 German for 72-Across 31 “Giant Brain” of 1946 32 Answer from behind a door
33 Tide type
34 Israel’s Netanyahu, informally
38 Flirts with, in a way 40 “The Ipcress File” novelist 41 Dissonant
44 Back
48 Election after an election 49 Wedding reception cry 50 Variety meat
51 Rial spender 54 Springs for a vacation? 55 Flying start?
56 Athos, Porthos and Aramis, e.g.
58 It may be next to an elevator
60 Sci-fi sage
61 Addict
62 Soil additive
64 One’s partner
65 “Cut that out!”