The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Rum-soaked cake
5 [I’m about to speak]
9 Massachusetts peninsula, with “the”
13 Stockpile
15 One of two needed for double Dutch
16 Matey’s greeting
17 Finnish tech giant
18 Words on either side of “___ what ___”
19 Like dark green avocados
20 Woven creation of the Ojibwe people
23 The first “B” of 1-Down
24 Sample collected by Ancestry.com
25 Damp
29 Thick liquid poured on a hot griddle
34 Gut bacterium
36 Actor Morales
37 ___ Lanka
38 What some states require to cast a ballot
41 Taking a sabbatical
43 Paleozoic, e.g.
44 No longer valid
46 Came to a close
47 Emma Stone’s co-star on Showtime’s “The Curse”
51 M.I.T.’s ___ School of Management
52 Woodcutter’s tool
53 Talk incessantly
56 Pour thing?
61 “Hold up, horses!”
64 Operatic song
65 Because of
66 Pueblo people of the Southwest
67 Main point
68 Shapewear brand
69 Mythical Himalayan beast
70 Hollywood workplaces
71 “Don’t go!”
DOWN
1 Quaint lodging, informally
2 Love, in Italian
3 Side dish that might come topped with sour cream and chives
4 Where Mandarin and Malay are spoken
5 Grammy-winning Grande 6 Controversial opinion, informally
7 Grand tale
8 Get along well
9 Bugs Bunny is often holding one
10 Tuna variety
11 Soda, to a Midwesterner
12 Fittingly, a homophone of one letter in “sight”
14 Uncle on an iconic W.W. I poster
21 U.S. public health org.
22 Sent a digital message 26 Clichéd dismissal of Arizona’s summer climate
27 Start a tennis point
28 Gave it a go
30 The “A” of I.P.A.
31 Buddhist’s goal
32 That, in Mexico
33 Prohibit
34 2, 4, 6, 8, how do these numbers relate?
35 Reef composition
39 Charged particle
40 “What’s the ___?” (“Who cares?”)
42 Opposite of WSW
45 Person keeping a daily journal
48 Its state fish is the humuhumu-nukunukuapua‘a
49 Those living outside their native country
50 Garland seen in 48-Down
54 Insurance company acquired by CVS Health
55 Designated representative
57 Clothing labels
58 The “E” of HOMES
59 N.F.L. six-pointers, for short
60 16 in a gallon
61 “For what reason?”
62 Gardening tool
63 Choose (to)