The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Luxuriate
5 Bread that may be stuffed with shawarma
9 Moves like a dog’s tail
13 Clamp that transposes a guitar’s pitch
14 “Hurry! We’re late!”
15 Horse, in Latin
17 Unfair dig in an argument
19 “We ___ please”
20 Actress Ward
21 Choose
23 Red October in “The Hunt for Red October,” e.g.
24 San Francisco neighborhood with the GLBT Historical Society Museum, with “the”
26 “I’m not THAT gullible!”
28 “Not feeling it”
30 Witnessed
31 One pitching in
32 Scratch like an unhappy tabby
34 Sci-fi or horror
36 Challenge for a translator, maybe
37 What free TV usually comes with
38 Elephant of children’s books
42 “Me too!”
43 Quick plunge
44 Sky-blue
45 Cataclysm in the lore of many world cultures
47 Space missions that collect data without landing
48 Professional occupation
51 Actor ___ Patrick Harris
53 Article of cricket equipment
54 Opposed (to)
55 Distilled coal product used to preserve wood
57 Maya who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
58 Some travel packages
60 Roughly half of binary code
62 Unleavened Passover staple
64 On again, as a flame or romance
67 Oktoberfest vessel
68 Swanky party
69 In the area
70 Upper hand
71 Ice cream brand
72 Green that might go in a smoothie
DOWN
1 Include covertly in an email thread
2 Sounds of bliss
3 Electronic device for a person with voice impairment
4 Eucalyptus-eating “bear”
5 Mac alternatives
6 Egotist’s “The party can start now!”
7 Response from someone who merely glanced at an online post, maybe
8 Poker buy-in
9 What a U.F.O. might really be
10 E.P.A. pollution stat
11 Clogs, as a machine or process
12 Surgeon’s stitch
16 Clearheaded
18 Go through one of life’s significant moments
22 Journalist/political analyst Nate
25 Vietnamese New Year
27 Sordid
28 Long-running CBS police drama
29 Designer Gucci
33 Low-frequency speaker
35 Mind reader’s ability, in brief
37 Hubbub
39 Beverage mixed with tapioca pearls ... or a description of this puzzle’s circled letters?
40 One of the Starks on “Game of Thrones”
41 Breather
46 Black-and-white cookie
47 Christmas tree
48 Quiets
49 Pilot a plane
50 Like apartments and many tuxedos
52 With little effort
56 Bold way to solve a sudoku
59 Impulse
61 Notary public’s
authorizing stamp
63 Sharp turn
65 Nitrous oxide, e.g.
66 “Dr.” who performed at Super Bowl LVI