The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Suggest without saying
6 “Up, up and ___!”
10 Six years, for a U.S. senator 14 Birds that honk
15 Any of 116 in Japan’s Inazawa Grand Bowl, the world’s largest bowling alley
16 Major work of art
17 *Beat by a little,
as in joke telling
18 *Unfaithful to,
as a lover
20 Recipe meas.
21 Word repeated before
“Pants on fire!”
22 Network behind the streaming
service Peacock
23 Vessel for a frozen lake 26 Commercials
28 Fashionable
31 *Chocolate bar named for a
group of literary swordsmen 34 Traitorous Corleone brother in
“The Godfather Part II” 35 Calf-length pants
36 ___-Cola
39 Keebler mascot
41 Have people over
42 ___ Fenty, former mayor
of Washington, D.C. 45 E-cigarette smoker
48 *Like a space measured by
length, width, depth and time 53 “Uhh, I mean ...”
54 Prefix with cycle
55 Tarnished reputation
56 Where baby food might wind
up, if not in the baby’s mouth 58 Went “Ptui!”
60 Aries animal
61 What the first word of the answer to each starred clue counts, with respect to the second word 64 Exaggerated kind
of journalism
66 Back of the foot
67 Artist Magritte 68 Astronomical belt wearer 69 Concludes
70 Calculates sum-thing? 71 Baked ___ (side dish)
DOWN
1 “Let me handle this!” 2 Good-hearted sort,
from Yiddish
3 Eye, slangily
4 Sch. in Baton Rouge 5 “Mm-hmm”
6 Data point for a pilot
7 H2O, to a toddler
8 Jacket with a name
derived from Inuit
9 “So close, ___ so far” 10 Cleopatra’s is still
undiscovered
11 Achilles or Aeneas
12 Sprint
13 Flavor enhancer imparting
umami, for short
19 Popular photo app, familiarly 21 Shiny fabric
24 “Let’s not play favorites” 25 “___ the ramparts
we watched ...” 27 Mo. when winter
officially starts
29 Part of the eye
30 “Hey, you there!”
32 Do a puzzle
33 Nora who wrote
“When Harry Met Sally ...” 36 Place for an Americano
in Paris?
37 Unpleasant smell
38 Like feta cheese in
a Greek salad
40 Celebs’ followings
43 Uzo ___ of “Orange Is
the New Black”
44 Writer Anaïs
46 H.S. sophomore’s exam 47 Festival following
Ramadan, informally 49 Wasn’t honest with 50 Fantasy land in “The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe” 51 Its basin covers roughly
40% of South America 52 Sour fruit
57 Misfortunes
59 Await a decision
61 ___/her pronouns 62 Currency with the symbol ¥ 63 Undergarment with cups 64 Lump, as of whipped cream 65 Prize that a prospector pries