NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Beat in chess
5 Astronomer who lost part of his nose in a sword duel
10 Classic Jumbotron shout-out
14 Frost
15 Takes a bit off
16 Certain newspaper column
17 Boot
18 Sorna y Nublar, en “Jurassic Park”
19 Long locks 20 Educator in a smock
22 Figure seen on Athena’s shield
23 Thumbs-up
24 Skim
26 Bit of letter-shaped hardware
28 Rangers’ domain
32 Thoroughbred, e.g.
36 Fedex Cup organizer
37 ___ of war
38 Bluish hues
40 Muslim leaders
41 “A Promised Land” author, 2020
43 Get into trouble, in a way
45 Grassy expanse
46 Some drinking vessels
48 Kind of zone in a city
50 1948 Literature Nobelist
52 Youngest player to score in the FIFA World Cup (age 17)
53 Two-word tribute
55 Bottle topper
59 Profession in an O’neill title
62 What “should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy,” per Noël Coward
64 Declare
65 Kid-lit character with a green suit and gold crown
66 Midrange club
67 Award-winning
Ward
68 Chess : check ::
go : ___
69 “Pretty please?”
70 Geekish
71 Fixes
72 Big name in printers
DOWN
1 Now: Sp.
2 Talks up
3 Some bridge positions
4 Leader of the house band on “The Muppet Show”
5 Low-budget feature 6 Like decisions made on a dare, typically
7 “Stormy Weather” composer
8 Learn secondhand
9 Either end of a school bus?
10 Side that usually has the most supporters
11 Device used in interactive museum displays
12 What a “hamburger button” opens
13 Dedicated works
21 Reader’s jotting, e.g.
22 Reader’s jottings … or a hint to this puzzle’s theme
25 Fancy-pants
27 Title derived from “Caesar”
29 Most of a sugar cane
30 Marisa of “In the Bedroom”
31 Writer Sontag
32 Underway
33 Some salads
34 French “equivalent”
35 Gusto
39 Dot on a subway map
42 Dissolve
44 Scan options for the claustrophobic
47 Kind of milk or sauce
49 Put on sale, say
51 So far
54 Densely packed, in a way
56 Under-the-sink fixture
57 Animals depicted on the Ishtar Gate
58 Film composer Morricone
59 Tried something?
60 At any time
61 The blue part of blue cheese 63 About .914 meters
65 “Pow!”