The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Off-the-cuff remarks 7 London TV inits. 10 Dark wines
14 Place for daisies 15 Fair-hiring letters 16 Treat with a 71%-to29% cookie-to-cream ratio
17 Microscopic life form 18 Looks for web content
about oneself
20 Basic, practical details 22 “___ Poetica” 23 Connery who played
007 seven times 24 Catbird seat?
28 Crystal ball gazers,
e.g.
31 Nobelist Wiesel 33 “Well, what a
surprise!”
34 What expensive things
cost
38 Brings home with a
hit, as a base runner 41 Treble symbols 42 Magnet for criticism 46 “What ___, chopped
liver?”
47 Vicinity
48 Sniffed (around)
52 Prove appropriate for 55 Has a part to play 57 Mahmoud Abbas’s
grp.
58 Doctor whose shopping list might include 20-, 34-and 42-Across?
62 Prowling kitty 65 Virtual payment with a bank routing number
66 “Star Wars” princess 67 “East” on a grandfather clock
68 Band’s hired hand 69 Brewski
70 Beats by ___ (headphones brand)
71 Full of S curves
DOWN
1 Alternatives to
Maytags
2 Modest and shy 3 Chinese philosopher who wrote the “Tao Te Ching”
4 Fateful day for Caesar 5 Word before tea or
Fett
6 What some ugly ducklings turn into 7 Flowering plant also
known as horsemint 8 Colorful garden perennial
9 “Suh-weet!” 10 Awaken
11 Goof
12 ___ Jam Recordings 13 Castaway’s “Help!”
19 Canful at a gas station 21 Venison
25 Something played
that’s not a game 26 ___ Boyardee
27 Harleys, in slang 29 Poison ivy eruption 30 Fit of irritation
32 Head of a train: Abbr. 35 Tennis’s Kournikova 36 Big name in pesticides 37 ___ Ray, 1950s-’70s
leading man
38 Spill the beans
39 “Je t’___” (French
words of endearment) 40 End-of-the-week shout 43 Carrier based in
Tehran
44 Item left at home on
casual Fridays
45 Place for a guard 49 Goes 60 in a
30-(m.p.h. zone, say 50 Draw out
51 Shrek’s companion in
“Shrek”
53 Worrier’s opening
words
54 Urging for a reluctant
person
56 Hägar the Horrible’s
dog
59 Battery liquid 60 Trash-hauling ship 61 Kind of cuisine offering tom yung goong and tom kha kai 62 Edmonton’s prov.
63 Spike or Gypsy Rose 64 “Tuesday is the hardest crossword of the week,” e.g.