The New York Times Crossword
No. 0208
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 country-and-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 Emmy-nominated Issa 69 Economic fig.
70 End of days?