The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Game pieces in Othello and Connect Four
6 Provocative … like this answer’s
position in the grid?
10 Q: What happens when the ___ clears over Los Angeles? A: UCLA!
14 Beer brand whose name
translates to “morning sun”
15 Looney Tunes bunny
16 Cézanne or Gauguin
17 “You cooked this? It’s
disgusting!” said Tom ___
20 Gumbo, e.g.
21 One foot in “the grave,” poetically speaking
22 Festoon
23 Bugle call at lights out
25 Support group associated with
the Twelve Steps
26 “What do you mean there are no PlayStations left in stock?” asked Tom ___
31 “Peace out”
32 “Well, ___ be!”
33 Lip
37 Spot for a sojourn
38 Charge for tardiness
42 Grief-stricken state
43 Scorch on a stovetop
45 Brewery vessel
46 Pastry dough used in crullers
and beignets
48 “I’m worried I may have anemia,”
said Tom ___
52 Had an inclination
55 Kind of column
56 Specialty of clerics, druids and paladins, in Dungeons & Dragons
57 Flat, for short
59 Assistant
63 “You guys are supposed to be ‘Wise Men’ and these are the gifts you bring a newborn?!” asked Tom, ___
66 With 54-Down, back to fighting
67 Gumbo ingredient 68 Het (up)
69 “That’s terrible!”
70 Hammer’s end
71 ___ of the state
DOWN
1 Spot for a speech
2 “Who ___?!” (“That’s true of everyone!”)
3 Relief pitcher’s success
4 Target of a canine’s canines, maybe
5 Ben Kingsley or Ian McKellen, e.g.
6 “West Texas town” in a classic country song
7 Gloom’s partner
8 Formless mass
9 Common word in pirate-speak
10 Outings devoted to relaxation and self-care
11 Employee at a brick-and-mortar business
12 Musical bit that slowly fades
13 Close in many close-ups
18 Coyote calls
19 Seven-foot, say
24 Particularly particular
25 Competent
26 Goddess with a reduplicative name
27 Bird with a reduplicative name
28 John of “The Suicide Squad”
29 Not be straight with
30 TV ET
34 Nowhere to be found, say
35 Genre for Luther Vandross
36 “___ and I Know It” (2012 #1 hit for 52-Down)
39 Fervent
40 Sailor, in slang
41 Behold: Lat.
44 Encounter unexpectedly
47 Is connected
49 Prominent part of an apatosaurus
50 Pulitzer-winning columnist Peggy
51 Visiting the Natl. Museum of African American History and Culture, say
52 Electronic dance music duo that performed at the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show
53 Home to over seven billion people
54 See 66-Across
57 Rug rat
58 ___ transfer
60 Man, for one
61 Consider
62 Swirl in a stream
64 Hack (off)
65 Before, to Byron