The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Dance at a Jewish
wedding
5 Chemical that burns 9 Chevrolet muscle car 15 Home of Waikiki
Beach
16 Capital of Italia 17 Brought (in), as a fish 18 Vittles
19 “What ___ goes!” (parent’s pronouncement)
20 Task to “run”
21 “Rush Hour” and “21
Jump Street” [Clinton] 24 Handle with ___ 25 Friends’ opposite
26 TV deputy of Mayberry
[Bush 43]
30 Leave out
34 Kind of port on a
computer, in brief 35 Zig or zag
36 Anticipate
38 Dines
40 The Buddha is often depicted meditating under it [Obama] 43 Numerical information
44 Windsurfing locale NE
of Honolulu 46 “Superfruit” berry 48 Cousin of “Kapow!” 49 Boxer Spinks who
upset Muhammad Ali 50 C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C, e.g.
[Biden]
53 Linguist Chomsky 55 Small amounts 56 What the starts of 21-, 26-, 40-and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues
63 Prayer beads
64 Shoe bottom
65 More than magnificent
68 Smitten
69 ___ of Arendelle (Disney queen)
70 Device that makes a
TV “smart”
71 Combs to add volume,
as a stylist might 72 Not the passive sort 73 Part of a stairway
DOWN
1 Go ___-wild
2 Means of propelling a
boat
3 Baked dessert made with tart red stalks (and loads of sugar) 4 University that’s also
a color
5 Really dry
6 Cloth used to cover a
teapot, to Brits
7 Apple on a desktop 8 Respite from work 9 ___ brûlée (French
custard)
10 Spray can mist
11 ___ Griffin Enterprises 12 Jai ___
13 Actress Russo 14 Probability 22 Mosquito repellent
ingredient
23 Author Edgar Allan
___ 24 Like Friday attire in
some offices
26 Play music in the
subway, perhaps 27 Rhyming title character who plays the tuba in Cuba, in a Rudy Vallee song
28 Curly hairstyle, for
short
29 1099-___ (bank-issued
tax form)
31 Plenty steamed 32 Stuck, with no way
out
33 Sums
36 Orchard fruit 37 Identify
39 ___-mo
41 Howard’s best friend on “The Big Bang Theory”
42 “Green” prefix 45 Rattle
47 “What ___ be done?” 50 Founder of Communist China
51 Made smile 52 Basketball players,
quaintly
54 “You got that right!” 56 Legal order
57 Sharpen
58 ___ Verde ((locale of
San Juan’s airport) 59 Tourist town in northern New Mexico
60 By oneself
61 “If all ___ fails &” 62 Letter starter
66 Prez with the pooch
Heidi
67 Saucer go-with