The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Unrefined
6 Coffee bar offering
11 Painter van Eyck
14 Navajo dwelling made of logs and mud
15 ___ Bell ( Emily Brontë pen name)
16 Word with single or fair
17 Direct- to- customer beef retailer
19 1952 and 1994 Olympics locale: Abbr.
20 Cover over, as a wall
21 Remove, as a name tag
23 Busy beaver
24 Rejections
26 Go one better than
27 Place to buy paint
31 Spirited horse
34 Upscale hotel amenity
37 Now and for always
39 Demolition aid
40 Calaverite or sylvanite
43 Memory unit
44 Coated, in a way
46 City NE of Manchester
48 Hawaiian entree, for short
49 Ones playing the numbers?
52 Big brand with an oval logo
54 Ticket datum
55 Something you might write an article on
59 More daft
63 Field a kickoff
65 Subject of the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine
66 Performer with a weapon
68 Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” has one
69 Mailing category for reduced postage
70 Very little
71 “___- haw!”
72 Name on a “Citizen Kane” poster
73 Things to run or pass
DOWN
1 Set of keys, maybe
2 Beau
3 Slack- jawed
4 Hot and dry
5 Lose one’s cool 6 Underground networks
7 Cry repeated at the start of the 1987 dance hit “Hot Hot Hot”
8 Keep time with the beat, maybe
9 Jack up
10 Land, building or machine
11 NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter
12 Beginning
13 ___ ball
18 Text message status
22 Good soil
25 Labrador retriever or Alaskan malamute, notably
28 Lose one’s cool
29 In ___ ( embryonic)
30 Individually
32 Like much of Chile
33 Agrees to “make things interesting”
34 Goblet feature
35 Visitor to King Mongkut
36 The Aggies of the NCAA
38 Bank
41 Discontinued
42 Abstract Expressionist Krasner
45 Helpful thing to have on hand?
47 Perfumer’s extract
50 River to the Dead Sea
51 Going “Wow, wow, wow!”
53 ___ clam ( mollusk found off the coast of California)
56 Typesetters’ measures
57 Javelin, e. g.
58 Mints with Retsyn
59 Its beaches begin five answers in this puzzle
60 “There was a time ...”
61 Still life subject
62 Some retina cells
64 Closing credits heading
67 Feature on a Spanish map