The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Front’s opposite
5 Some male deer
10 What gives Scotch
an earthy flavor
14 Long, cylindrical instrument 15 Kind of bond in chemistry 16 “That hurts!”
17 [Get my innuendo?] 19 Beech or birch
20 When a plane
is due, for short
21 Show hosts, in brief 22 “Doesn’t matter who” 24 Actress Jessica
25 Close by
26 Something a digital crossword solver doesn’t need
29 Winter hours in N.Y.C. 31 Exploding stars
35 “Relax, soldier”
37 [Get my innuendo?] 39 Moderate gait for a horse 40 “Later, dudes”
42 Response to the
Little Red Hen
43 [Get my innuendo?] 45 Worked
47 Younger Obama daughter 48 “That’s all ___ wrote” 50 Takes in what
someone wrote
51 Engrave
53 Dozes (off)
55 “That’s what people
tell me, anyway”
58 Midori ___, first woman to land a triple axel in competition 59 Chop (off)
62 Bridal veil fabric
63 [Get my innuendo?] 66 Furniture store known for
its cafeterias’ meatballs 67 Message on a candy heart 68 Classic pie crust ingredient 69 “Hey you!”
70 Painter Degas 71 Membership fees
DOWN
1 Chicken leftover
2 Be adjacent to 3 Musician’s conclusion 4 Beer barrel
5 “___ U Been Gone”
(Kelly Clarkson hit) 6 Mess up, as hair
7 As well as
8 Beyond big
9 Big public argument 10 Baked things that might
get people baked 11 Currency that replaced
the mark and peseta 12 Got an A+ on 13 ___/them pronouns 18 Mideast leaders 23 Tug hard
24 Keep cool in a pool, perhaps 26 Trails
27 Open-air lobbies
28 Menial workers,
dismissively
30 Strip of mowed grass 32 EGOT-winning
actress Davis
33 Contributed to a kitty 34 Loses traction on the road 36 Commercial lead-in to Pen 38 Take-home amount
41 Cover completely
44 “Anger leads to ___. ___
leads to suffering”: Yoda 46 Surgeon, for short
49 Riddle
52 Something you might clear
to improve memory 54 Catchall category 55 Undergarment for a dress 56 Acorn producers
57 Frosts, as a cake
59 Hawaiian banquet
60 Fairy tale baddie 61 Professors’ degs.
64 Big name in fleecy boots 65 What a good joke never gets