The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Like some committees
6 Many a Syrian or Yemeni
10 “Ri-i-i-ight”
14 “Je t’aime” : French ::
“___” : Spanish
15 Does some tech work
17 Firm fruit
18 With 66-Across, hint for
solving this puzzle
20 “Roll doubles to get out of jail” or “You do not talk about Fight Club”
21 Supreme Egyptian deity
22 Centerpiece of an agenda
24 Actor George of “The
Goldbergs”
27 Museum curators’ degs.
28 “Lah-di-___!”
31 Some nightclub
performances
33 Sound of impact
36 Vexed
38 Garment patented in 1914 by Mary Phelps Jacob
39 “My alarm didn’t go off,”
for one
41 Young musician
42 Mount Olympus
44 Look good
45 One of the Three Magi
47 Insurance giant bailed
out in 2008
48 Some turban wearers
49 Hwy. accident respondent
50 Call home
53 Singer with the 2016 #1
hit “Cheap Thrills”
54 Gossip
55 Sticky plant stuff
57 As a unit
61 Takes a whiff
65 Thick Japanese noodle
66 Continuation of
18-Across
69 Cuts short
70 Feature of a helmet,
maybe
71 Absorb, as information
72 Water buffalo
73 ___ Midas Wolf (Disney’s “Three Little Pigs” antagonist)
74 Senator Joni of Iowa
DOWN
1 Gillette razor name
2 Judge
3 Give birth to
4 Signs of trouble
5 Emend
6 No soft serve
7 Caviar, for example
8 Only human, briefly
9 Wasn’t, then was
10 Actor Elba of “Cats”
11 Engagement ring
12 What is she in France?
13 Abound
16 Went to third, say
19 Story spanning generations
23 Lil ___ (“Old Town Road”
rapper)
25 U.S.A., USB or U.S.C.
26 Wild West show rope
28 Word with square or line
29 Crew top
30 Job bank
32 Symbol of sharp wit
33 Does not
34 Official beer sponsor of
the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
35 Group thinking
37 Grossglockner, for one
40 CBS forensic drama
42 Object of hate-watching,
perhaps
43 Giant storybook
46 Not very much
48 Rod used to make yarn
51 1978 movie musical
starring Diana Ross
52 U.N. member until 1991
54 Like a neutron star
56 Not as nasty
57 Part IV
58 Evidence of expiration
59 Cold Asian desert
60 National flower of
England
62 Cold Spanish dessert
63 Pelts
64 Lampooned, with “up”
67 Pan Asian
68 Rock hard