Crossword No. 694: You’ve Got Mail
ACROSS
1 Words in shoe or sock prices
6 Mexican food cooked in a banana leaf
11 ___-fi novels
14 It’s good in Quebec City
15 Japanese word often translated as “savoriness”
16 Prefix with fiction
17 Netflix announced last week that it will soon go streaming-only, ending its 25-year DVD-by-mail service; you may have seen this Boston mailman on one of them
19 Animal with antlers
20 ___ Rouge!
21 “Black diamonds”
23 Constricting snake
25 Late rapper who drives a U.S. Mail truck from L.A. to Oakland in 1993’s Poetic Justice
29 Main courses
31 Beach danger
32 Lisa who sings “Stay”
33 Journalist Weiss
34 Mr. Flanders
35 Italian-language 1994 drama that got Best Picture and Best Actor nomination; its title means “The Mailman”
40 Prepare an arrow
43 Especially slippery swimmers, it’s said
44 Sandwich alternative
48 Prepared, as rice
50 Quality of the unfriendly
53 How Jerry begrudgingly greets his mailman neighbor on Seinfeld
55 Glide at Telluride, say
56 Appetizer follower
57 Minor computer program
59 Recycling container
60 2004 romance in which Ryan Gosling mails Rachel McAdams a love letter every day for a year
65 Weapon seen in Raid on Entebbe
66 Champing at the bit
67 He managed Jeter and Rivera
68 Powerful currency
69 Extreme unease
70 Dismissive look
DOWN
1 Opening trio of a kids’ song
2 D.C. type
3 Bring to life
4 Facts and figures
5 Counterargue decisively against
6 They bloom in Holland
7 Microwave brand
8 Dallas NBA player, for short
9 “What ___ trying to say?”
10 Person vital to an enterprise
11 Come back after curfew, say
12 Hatch a plot with a partner
13 Media attention
18 Detective’s discovery
22 Cracklin’ ___ Bran
23 The Fresh Prince of ___-Air
24 Creative Yoko
26 Suffix for pluto or auto
27 “___, is it going to rain today?”
28 Barolo or malbec, e.g.
30 Closing pitcher’s fear
33 Undergrad degs.
36 Cold-battling drink
37 Ball-___ hammer
38 Ancient, in quaint store names
39 Possess
40 Blond shade
41 List purchases individually
42 Skin tone determiner
45 Bring back to strength
46 Do an interviewer’s job
47 Next-to-last letter
49 MacGraw or Wong
50 Bring from abroad
51 Lt.’s superior
52 Good places to canoe, often
54 Lessens, as enthusiasm
58 Black, in verse
59 Accept, as a false excuse
61 Role for Harrison
62 It may be shirred or deviled
63 Subterranean score
64 ___-plunk (coin-tossed-into-a-fountain sound)