NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Slicing and dicing, say
5 Training unit 8 Share of the supply
14 Italian for “year”
15 ___ word
16 Lacking the wherewithal
17 Head-scratchers?
18 Subjects in a series of van Gogh landscape paintings
20 Pricey basketball tickets
22 Ending with fluoror chlor
23 Serious ___ (popular cooking blog)
24 Some baby shower gifts
26 Self images?
28 Modern scanning target
30 Something to take when you’re in the dark
34 Abandoned
38 Rare
40 Not in one’s head, say
41 Alternative to a handshake
43 Vintner’s concern
44 With 46-Across, some areas in Clue ... or a hint to the first, fourth, 12th and 15th rows of this puzzle
46 See 44-Across
48 Take a hit
49 Good hosts make them
51 “This is Me ... Now” singer, familiarly
52 Head-scratchers
57 “Jaws” menace
60 Commonly mined material that’s relatively rare in Earth’s crust (about 2 ppm)
62 Lender you shouldn’t trust
63 Whales and alligators might be seen on them
66 Celebration in the worship of Bacchus
67 Like stubble 68 Comedian ___ Martin
69 Spill
70 Valuable property
71 Choice for a round
72 Institution with galleries in Liverpool and Cornwall
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1 “Nurse Jackie” star
2 Something that can be red or white, but not blue
3 When theatrical special effects happen, one hopes
4 Workhorses
5 Casino that houses the Penn & Teller Theater
6 Draft status
7 Settled up
8 French translation of the Spanish “calle”
9 Alternatives to blinds
10 ___ VanDerveer, coach who holds the record for the most wins in college basketball history (1,200+)
11 “Pfft”
12 Chorus for los toreadores
13 Platform for playing Kirby’s Adventure
19 Place to take shots
21 Diatribe
25 “There’s something in the pantry!”
27 Prosecution figs.
29 Not right (for)
30 N.K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy, for one
31 What has degrees in math?
32 Common Photoshop target
33 Appeals to
34 Like lightning
35 Product made from vegetable oil
36 Be awesome, informally
37 100%, so to speak
39 Crème de ___ (liqueur)
42 Kind of leave or guidance
45 ’Fore
47 Author Joe Hill, visà-vis Stephen King
50 Terse denial
51 Walter’s methdealing partner on “Breaking Bad”
53 Suddenly go silent, in modern dating lingo
54 “The Jeffersons” actress Gibbs
55 Insider language
56 Verb akin to “Zoom”
57 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” location
58 Jai ___
59 Average
61 Name found in “affirmation”
63 Doctor sought for a checkup, in brief
64 ___ Honor
65 “Capeesh?”