The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Gradually develop, literally
5 Doozy
10 Gradually develop,
literally
14 Cuba’s ___ Castro,
brother of Fidel
15 Kind of group in
chemistry
16 Like many indie films
17 Last monarch of the
House of Stuart
18 Barber’s belt
19 Trademarked coffee
holder
20 Sierra ___ (Mexican
range, informally)
22 Comicdom’s “Queen of the
Jungle”
24 Things you might save
while driving
26 More aged, as some
cheeses
27 Aptly named mascot of the
2000 Olympics
28 Jean-___ Picard of “Star
Trek”
29 “Watch it!”
30 Boom producer, once: Abbr.
31 Leaves in the kitchen?
33 Developing phenomena literally depicted three times in this puzzle
43 One way an animal may
be held
44 Shakespearean cries
45 The “Gateway to the
West”
46 Chinwagging
48 In a bind 50 Google ___, service
beginning in 2017
51 Name hidden in
“oleomargarine”
52 Way off
54 Gradually develop,
literally
58 Company originally founded as Blue Ribbon Sports
61 Commoner
63 “Let’s ___!”
64 Is the real deal
65 Kitchen gadget with an
edge
66 French season
67 Butterfly, but not a
caterpillar
68 Hole maker
69 Norse god of war
70 “Are you down for this?”
DOWN
1 Pop-pop
2 Farm storehouse
3 Punished for the weekend,
perhaps
4 Beer containers
5 One might hit a very low
pitch
6 Many an essential worker,
for short
7 Put on
8 Game in which the object
is to score 500 points
9 High-quality
10 Total phony
11 Some surgical tools
12 Enormous amounts to
spend
13 “As far as I’m concerned …”
21 Sushi staple that isn’t
served raw
23 Put a fork in it!
25 Quantity contrasted
with a vector, in physics
26 Most like a wallflower
32 Foxy
33 Ink holder
34 Kind of power in math
35 Early 2010s
36 You might make waves
when you lie about this
37 Bunch of bits
38 Shaving canful
39 Fried food whose name
translates to “breaded”
40 Big name in juice
pouches
41 All-time go-between
42 Crestfallen
47 Fabled visitors to 49
Down, in brief
49 Southwest city in 1947
news
52 Screen display
53 Kerfuffle
55 Opposite of dry, to a
vintner
56 Evidencing physical
exertion
57 Suffer in the summer
heat
59 Spot for firing
60 “At Last” singer James
62 Palindromic word in classic poetry
64 Hem’s partner