The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Florida city nicknamed the “Big Guava”
6 Finnish telecom giant
11 Ruler divs.
14 Terrain of which less than 10% has been mapped
15 Corner office types
16 “You’ve got mail” co.
17 “It’s worth only 20 cents,” “It has Abe Lincoln on it” and others?
19 “___ bien”
20 Decorative vases
21 Crime genre
22 Actor Omar
24 Greasy spoon, e.g.
26 Flute-playing Greek god
makes an effort?
29 Combustible rock
31 Sees through
32 Part of a coat of arms
35 Sound from a sty
38 Some skin-care
products
39 “Rooster” that’s not a
rooster
40 Terse summary of
Alec d’urberville’s fate? (spoiler alert!)
43 One who’s easily fooled
44 Decides
46 Substance, so to speak
47 Like thin clouds
49 To a greater degree 51 Digitize, as a document
53 Peel the apples, roll out the dough, turn the oven on, etc.?
56 Like some grounders in
baseball
60 “Toodle-oo!”
61 1990s “Weekend
Update” host Macdonald
63 Seized vehicle, for short
64 So far
65 Neckwear reserved for
fancy occasions?
68 Mined find
69 Half of a 1960s folk
quartet
70 Preferred seat
assignment, to many
71 Nasdaq currency: Abbr.
72 Genre
73 Fall guy
DOWN
1 Headwear for a chef
2 Honda’s luxury brand
3 Stood for
4 Units of distance erroneously mentioned as units of time by Han Solo
5 Aardvark’s prey
6 Infamous emperor
7 Yellow primrose
8 Actress Knightley
9 Drink cooler
10 Net worth components
11 Characteristic of John
Waters movies
12 Classic board game inspired by Rube
Goldberg machines
13 ___ and the Family Stone
(pioneering funk band)
18 “Orinoco Flow” singer
23 Big-leaguers
25 Org. for college cadets
27 Greek goddess of victory
28 Lathered up
30 Mined find
32 Eat like Pac-man
33 Press conference
attendees
34 Beseeched
36 Activist ___ B. Wells
37 Trivial criticisms
41 Mine, in France
42 Word with song or dive
45 Equinox mo.
48 Tendency to stay at rest
50 Twitches
52 Unconscious state
54 “No ___ is worse than
bad advice”: Sophocles
55 L.A. region
57 Plot point in the “The
Thomas Crown Affair”
58 Some German cars
59 Actress Parker
62 Climb
64 Pronoun that sounds like
its last letter
66 ___ on the back
67 Once around the track