The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Kit Kat component
6 Heal (over)
10 “Ruler,” in Quechua
14 Words before “darned”
15 What ice cream and hearts may do
16 Transport up a bunny hill
17 Investigative journalist and civil rights pioneer who co-founded the N. A. A.C.P.
19 Some bunts, in brief
20 Exhaust
21 Boiling sensation
22 California’s “Eureka,” for one
23 Novelist and civil rights activist who wrote “Go Tell It on the Mountain”
28 Language in which “eleven” is “once”
30 One way to crack
31 Holiday pie flavor
32 Automated tweeter
33 Ribs serving
37 “___ away!”
38 W.W. Ii-era campaign that helped usher in the civil rights movement … and a hint to four answers in this puzzle
42 Letter after phi
43 Make a pit stop at a punk show?
45 Bodybuilding supplement co.
46 Interrupt, as at a dance
48 Rank above a viscount 50 Road flare, e.g.
52 African American who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for valorous service in W.W. II
56 “Star Wars” beeper, informally
57 Nest egg inits.
58 Transcript stat
61 When repeated, a sport fish
62 Historian, essayist and civil rights leader who was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard
66 Manipulates
67 Whimper
68 Waze way
69 Trimester, e.g.
70 ___-bitsy
71 Many, informally
DOWN
1 Consoles whose controllers have wrist straps
2 Hawkeye’s player on “M*A*S*H”
3 Griddle goodies
4 Beach retreat?
5 Give juice to
6 Enemy org. in Bond novels
7 Big name
8 “That’s ___ she wrote”
9 K-pop megastars
10 “We’re through!”
11 Where to see Timberwolves battle
Grizzlies
12 Mojave flora
13 Crime of combustion
18 Competes (for)
22 G.P.S, e.g.
24 Actress de Armas
25 Yours might be made up
26 Off-base, in a way
27 Lo-cal, perhaps
28 ___ folder
29 Durango dough
32 Original “Fleabag” airer
34 Throwing a tantrum, say
35 Facial feature that many characters on “The Simpsons” lack
36 “___ me!” (checkers cry)
39 Fairy tale baddie
40 Silver State sch.
41 Bygone home theater components
44 Selfless courage
47 Popular card game
49 In the past
50 Like a songbird
51 Hardly any
52 Full spectrum
53 Clear the board
54 ___ half (partner)
55 Peak perks
59 The stones in stone fruits
60 On the briny
62 Keydets’ sch.
63 Screen, as a candidate
64 “www” address
65 Cry that might make you jump