The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS 1 Metallic fasteners on
envelopes
7 “The Office” network 10 Decorative container 14 Repeated World Cup cry 15 Constitutional measure passed in ’72 but never ratified
16 Brother of Cain
17 Vestal virgin, e.g.
18 Good snack for a pilot? 20 Ambient musician Brian 21 Leans
23 Thin and graceful
24 Good snack for a gangster? 27 Money to tide one over 28 “Act your age!”
32 Run up, as expenses 35 Elizabeth Warren, by birth 38 One-named singer with the 2014 #1 album “1000 Forms of Fear”
39 Good snack for a flea market
dealer?
43 When a plane is due in, in
brief
44 Horned farm animal
45 Like the comment “Oh no,
you didn’t!,” say
46 Caribbean island NE of
Trinidad
49 At any point
51 Good snack for an arsonist? 57 Wryly humorous
60 Fancy car maneuver that
might leave skid marks 61 Dye holder
62 Good snack for an
optometrist?
64 Sexual appetite 66 Second-largest Hawaiian
island 67 Not feel so good
68 Keep musical time, in a way 69 Data
70 “You there!”
71 Mocking smiles
DOWN
1 Competitor of Ajax and Bon
Ami
2 Grassy South American plain 3 Linguistic quintet
4 Turf
5 Overabundance
6 Roman philosopher who said “Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole”
7 A cut above?
8 Cold and enlivening, as a
wind
9 Pink-slip
10 Go poof!
11 Border
12 Brother of Cain
13 “What ___ is new?”
19 Fox series about musical
high schoolers
22 “Wrong! All wrong!”
25 Sound of drinking 26 “___ to differ!”
29 Yard sale caveat
30 Bigwigs
31 Rated 1 out of 4 stars,
as a sudoku
32 “Yeah, right!”
33 Grp. with peacekeeping
operations
34 Constant complainer 36 Sportage maker
37 Summer helper, say 40 Composer Stravinsky 41 Delivery option
42 Quaint “Listen!”
47 U.S.’s largest alliance of trade
unions
48 ___ monster
50 Big safes
52 Murphy of “Dreamgirls” and
“Trading Places”
53 With false shyness
54 You’d probably R.S.V.P. to it
online
55 Speeder catcher
56 Pulls over, as a speeder 57 Prefix with john or god 58 Actor Reynolds
59 Egg: Fr.
63 “I don’t think so” 65 Proverbial symbol of
busyness