The New York Times Crossword
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