NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Guadalajara

goodbye

6 Puts away, as

the groceries? 10 Nonvegan pie crust ingredient

14 Melee

15 Popular site for tech reviews

16 Composer

Stravinsky

17 With 69-Across, beginner’s downhill challenge … or a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters 18 Curved

molding

19 Quick snack 20 Part of AWOL 22 Most workers

on a kibbutz 24 Use a divining

rod

26 Club-wielding

bogeywoman 27 Top toy for a

holiday?

30 Jai ___

31 Reddish hue 32 Midnight “excursion” to the fridge

34 Automaker based in Hiroshima

38 Sighed

sounds

39 Spend

indulgently

41 Epileptologist’s test, for short

42 Soup base

44 Jon Arbuckle’s dog

45 Manipulative

type

46 Large paper

unit

48 Hyundai compact named North American Car of the Year in 2021

50 Shook on it

53 Peevish

moods

54 Braggadocious 56 Easygoing reply to “I’m sorry!”

60 Tush

61 Supply-and-demand subj. 63 “Is it too audacious of me?”

64 Beat narrowly,

with “out”

65 Actor Idris

66 More arid

67 Happy

shouts

68 Girl Scout’s

accessory

69 See 17-Across

DOWN

1 Pop group with the 1976 hit “Money, Money, Money”

2 Clobber

3 Johns, in

Scotland

4 Took responsibility for something 5 Subtle signal that might accompany a wink

6 Lead-in to freak or friendly

7 Actress Harmon of TNT’s “Rizzoli & Isles”

8 Shirts lacking buttons, informally

9 Waxy biochemical compound 10 Monrovia’s

land

11 Quick on

one’s feet

12 Flatbreads that may be served with saag paneer 13 Garb

21 Insignificant

sort

23 Best effort,

informally 25 Olympic event

with gates

27 Visually blah 28 German industrial region

29 Competitor of PetroCanada

30 Oscar winner

Brody

33 Contraceptive

insert, in brief 35 Gusto

36 A couple of

bucks?

37 Taj Mahal city 39 Small paper

unit

40 Freezing

43 Major letdowns for Rapunzel?

45 Fix, as tangles of hair or traffic

47 Revenue for Madison Ave. firms

49 Not seeing

eye to eye 50 Downton, for

one

51 Cheese that’s “not badda”

52 Long-limbed

and lean

53 Ones not inclined to make sweeping gestures?

55 Sch. that used to bring a live bear onto the field at its home football games

57 Small jazz

combo

58 Pager alert

59 The Emerald

Isle

62 “I’ll pass”