NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Possible result of a TMZ story

6 Behind, nautically

11 “American Dad!” network

14 Theme of la festa di San Valentino

15 Spanish equivalent of “Basta!”

16 Word with know or show

17 Future zombie’s last words?

19 Virtuoso

20 This is only a test

21 Sauce that’s 80% vowels

22 Worshipper at the ancient Qorikancha (“Golden Temple”)

23 Core group

25 Black-and-white movie effect

27 Country music standard at zombie karaoke night?

32 Ending for some government

37-Across

33 Poker giveaway

34 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” poet

37 Info in a modern bibliography

39 Gets warmer, so to speak

42 Tackles, say

43 Kind of reform or code

45 “Read the clues carefully” and “Check your crossing answers” [You’re welcome!]

47 Big name in nail polish

48 Reason the zombies are, of course, skipping the empty house?

52 “Abso-lutely not!”

54 Be over

55 Broadcast journalist Paula

56 Purple shade

59 Not do anything

63 ___-Man

64 Zombies’ cry in the face of defeat?

66 Landmark 1973 court case, familiarly

67 Sync up

68 With 13-Down, playground promise

69 White wine aperitif

70 Old Apple Store offerings

71 Ophthalmological ailments

DOWN

1 Sweets

2 Discover alternative, for short

3 Toon with a talking map

4 Fundamental

5 On the ___ (frequently, in modern slang)

6 Pro’s opposite

7 Classic clown name

8 Picturesque town on the Gulf of Salerno

9 Adroit

10 Sound made with one’s tongue

11 “I really appreciate it!”

12 Ball game

13 See 68-Across

18 Expedite

22 Causes of some brain freezes 24 Sandwich that’s 100% consonants

26 “Ugh!”

27 “My turn!”

28 Can

29 Something that may be pulled in college

30 “Bravo!” relative

31 Author of the

“Symposium”

35 Stick with it!

36 Commotion

38 Suppressed

40 “Spare” item

41 Wild times at the mall, say

44 What the DEA might keep tabs on?

46 ___ Ysidro, Calif.

49 Bassett of “Black Panther”

50 Ideal picnic forecast

51 “Yay, me!”

52 Netflix crime drama

set in the Midwest

53 World capital with traditional water puppet shows for tourists

57 Preceder of a certain “-naut”

58 Puts on paper

60 Withhold from

61 Canoeing locale

62 Turkey Hill competitor

64 Colorless

65 Photo finish?

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