The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 “Delish!”
5 “___ Sexy” (1991 dance hit) 10 Single at a bar, perhaps 13 Brown powder
15 Brown powder
16 Costa ___
17 Popular pops
18 Point a finger at
19 Fan fave
20 Kennel sound
21 Southern newspaper that William Faulkner once contributed to, with “The” 24 Prefix with beat or futurism 26 Toy dog from Tibet
27 Sport with Native American
origins
30 Melodramatist
31 Kind of saxophone
32 Rapper for whom Harvard’s
Hip-Hop Fellowship is named 34 Get cozy
39 Cultivars known for their yellow
flesh
43 “Excuse me”
44 Do some patching, say 45 Book after Joel
46 Compadre
48 Quantity that’s tied to one’s
carbon footprint
51 Second way of viewing things,
figuratively
56 Appear
57 What a solver might growl after catching on to this puzzle’s theme?
59 Genre for the Mighty Mighty
Bosstones
62 Mine find
63 Mother-of-pearl
64 Motorola smartphone
66 Flubs it 67 Not using profanity, as a
comedian
68 “___ is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope”: Aristotle
69 Central concept of philosopher
Zhuangzi’s teachings 70 Repeatedly comments (on) 71 The first one in The New York
Times appeared in 1970
DOWN
1 Southwest desert plant 2 Dock
3 Metric of grossness
4 Classic comedy figure who
sported a bowl cut
5 Certain warhead transport, in
brief
6 Phoenix and Washington, e.g. 7 Low culture, disparagingly 8 Brass band sound
9 Showily deferential
10 Neaten
11 Clickable things
12 Prefix with -lithic
14 Lone Star State athlete 16 Certifier of music sales, for
short
22 Apple devices run on it 23 “Along ___ spider …” 25 Palm part
27 Easy two-pointer 28 ___-Seltzer
29 Not Ready for Prime Time
Players show, for short 33 Where a zipper
gets caught?
35 Put on
36 Popular hot-and-sour
Thai dish
37 Some summer babies
38 To be: Lat.
40 Headgear for many
an extreme athlete
41 Using intuition
42 Have
47 Syllables said with fingers in
one’s ears
49 Night sch. class
50 Thin, as a voice
51 Small screech, for example 52 Actress Birch
53 Green power option, informally 54 A scallop has up to 200 of
these
55 Not so cold
58 Second place at a math
competition?
60 Symbol of highness
61 Focus problem, for short 65 Joey of children’s fiction