The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 One side of a sheet 5 Ending with centi- or milli
9 Eritrea’s capital
15 Made a fast break after
breakfast, say
17 Mob member
18 Dangerously near
20 Some people
21 Playlet
22 Simple chord
23 “Gimme a moment”
26 One who eschews all pop
culture, say
28 Word after big or go
29 No-goodnik
30 Like a controversial
political issue, maybe
34 Needs to be corrected
36 Goat’s cry
37 Board hiree, in brief
38 Trendy and
overconfident, slangily
44 Necklace made from
natural materials
45 They check out people
who check in, in brief
46 Self-referential
48 Triple-platinum 1991
Hammer album
54 Central
55 Big feller?
56 Mouth-puckering
57 ___ flour (macaron
ingredient)
59 Animal that might make
a waterslide to play on
62 Fad 64 Prohibition
65 Not enough, and without the urgency, to make a difference … or a literal hint to 18-, 30-, 38- and 48-Across
70 Water gate
71 Some compound gases
72 Great respect
73 Just like *that*!
74 Fortified tower
DOWN
1 ___-Man
2 Hartsfield-jackson airport code
3 Onetime auto replaced by the Chevrolet Aveo
4 Moderates
5 Adobe file suffix
6 God of fertility
7 Sci-fi cult classic of 1974
8 Los Angeles neighborhood whose name means “oak” in Spanish
9 Branch
10 Sort (through)
11 Secure, in a way
12 The “A” of A-fib
13 Take over?
14 Film character whose lines were all bleeped out?
16 ___ Cherry, singer with the 1988 hit “Buffalo Stance”
19 “And yet …” in a text
23 Iron Range haul 24 Deal breaker?
25 Candied fruits or nuts
27 Romantic music genre originating in the Dominican Republic
31 “The way,” per 48-Down
32 Prefix with classical
33 Send to a terrible fate
35 Jus ___ (birthright
citizenship)
39 Frequent word before “x
= …”
40 Common caviar source
41 Long-running forensics
drama
42 Stereotypical product for a kid’s first entrepreneurial endeavor
43 “Yer darn ___!”
47 Do some basic arithmetic
48 Noted ancient
philosopher
49 Praises
50 “Scram!”
51 Dutch astronomer with
an eponymous “cloud”
52 Reservations
53 Place for a screwdriver
58 Singer Zayn
60 Novelist Wiesel with a
Nobel Peace Prize
61 Food often served in bed?
63 Sicilian skiing spot
66 Pro ___
67 Alley ___
68 Bit of merch
69 In particular: Abbr.