The New York Times Crossword

By Victor Barocas

ACROSS

1 Toot one’s own

horn

5 Opposite of

“sans”

9 Crime lord strangled by Princess Leia

14 Tibetan monk

15 Home of the

Sphinx

16 Elba who portrayed Nelson Mandela

17 Ursa Major and

Ursa Minor?

19 They’re found

around castles

20 1992 role for Robin Williams or 2019 role for Will Smith

21 [I’m right here!]

23 Three-way

intersection

24 Side dish with ribs

27 Mystical mixtures

29 Scorpio and

Cancer?

33 Therapists’ org.

34 Close up tight

35 Taqueria topping

38 Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature

40 Critical resource harvested in “Dune”

43 Southern pronoun

44 Outer boundaries

46 Tupperware lid

sound 48 Onetime Saturn

S.U.V.

49 Sagittarius and

Orion?

53 Entourage

55 Something to perform tricks with

56 Low stat for a top

pitcher

57 Small complaints

59 Modern lead-in to

squat

63 Telegraph pioneer

Samuel

65 Pegasus?

68 Change with the

situation

69 “___ Enchanted”

(2004 film)

70 Many a textbook

71 Famed diarist

Samuel

72 Study, e.g.

73 Wonderstruck

DOWN

1 Modern journal

2 Rapturous review

3 “Preach it!”

4 Obtrusively

showy

5 A growing

number?

6 By way of

7 Journalist Klein who co-founded Vox

8 First nut listed on a can of Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts

9 Pries open 10 Trouble

11 World capital 50

miles from Vienna

12 Risky dog to own

13 Foolish sorts

18 They go through

loops

22 Right-angle shape

25 Good hole cards

in Texas hold ’em

26 It’s filled, and may

be filling

28 It sees right

through you

29 Be specific about,

inaway

30 Magic Keyboard

go-with

31 Genre for N.W.A

and Ice-t

32 Defensive line?

36 Offensive line?

37 Pub choices

39 Classic soft drink

brand 41 Big Apple

educational syst.

42 “And so … “

45 154 Shakespeare

works

47 Intimidate, in a

way, with “out”

50 Avignon

affirmative

51 Tie to a post, say

52 Tundra, for one

53 Lay out in a new

pattern

54 Wear away

58 Bulk storage area

60 Forehead

61 She’s found in “She loves me not”

62 Cattail, e.g.

64 John le Carré

figure

66 Day-_ _ _

67 _ _ _ radio