The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Discontinue
5 ___ cake (dessert with
a liquid chocolate core) 9 Skewered meat dish 14 Wander
15 “Victory is mine!”
16 Reply to “Grazie”
17 A ??
19 Feeling the need to scratch 20 Blanc who was known as “The Man of a Thousand Voices”
21 Tries not to be found 22 “Hello,” in Mandarin 23 Categorize
25 Give lip to
26 Where visitors take photos pretending to hold up a landmark
28 Not playing any songs,
as a radio station
31 Rocker Lavigne
34 Offering from the miller
or the cook, in Chaucer 36 Never Have I ___
(party game) 37 Shakespearean “Tsk!” 38 B ??
41 X – III
42 Berry rich in antioxidants
(and vowels)
44 Accessory that may
denote military rank 45 Deep chasm
47 Smallest unit of purchasing
power, in an idiom
49 Start of a spell 51 Liquid-ate?
52 “You can say that again!” 56 High-end Honda 58 Pancakes sometimes
served with caviar
61 Apt anagram of “yea”
62 Put forward
63 B ??
65 Speak one’s mind 66 Cereal crop
67 Gave the go-ahead 68 Quick kisses
69 Occasion for blowing out
candles, informally 70 Dudes
DOWN
1 Field of play?
2 Double Dutch
equipment
3 Racetrack shapes 4 Pay-___-view
5 City ___ (place for
a population sign) 6 Wowed
7 Botanical climber
8 Flik and Dot, in
“A Bug’s Life”
9 Kind of cord or column 10 Skilled performer
11 E ??
12 Persian honorific 13 Fluctuate wildly 18 Skydiving or a ride
on a roller coaster 24 Big name in nail polish 25 Whole host 27 Corroded
28 “Hi,” in Lanai
29 Lanai neckwear
30 Mother of Kim,
Kylie and Kourtney
31 A ways away
32 The “V” of V.P.
33 Follow a composer’s notation ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle
35 Show stoppers?
39 “Winning ___ everything” 40 Fictional land ruled by Aslan 43 Winter Olympics facility 46 Naughty
48 Fills with delight 50 Anonymous creator of a painting sold at auction that subsequently shredded itself
53 A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity
54 “Sheesh!”
55 Tends to an
overgrown garden
56 Each
57 Make do
58 Amorphous
shape
59 Hamperful
60 Smallest bit
64 Daily record