NY Times Crossword 3 Oct 18, Wednesday

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Across

Number	Clues	Answers
1	The challengers	THEM
5	Sailor’s quaff	GROG
9	Presidential perk until 1977	YACHT
14	Speck	IOTA
15	Roof feature	EAVE
16	Jibe	AGREE
17	Roald who wrote “James and the Giant Peach”	DAHL
18	Sea nymphs, in Greek mythology	THE NEREIDS
20	Like Edward Snowden	EXILED
22	Tear in two	REND
23	Rank for Jay Landsman on “The Wire”: Abbr.	SGT
24	Munch Museum city	OSLO
25	Gives comfort	SOLACES
27	Generation ___	GAP
29	Had by heart	KNEW
32	1,000 in a metric ton	KILOS
33	Certain operating system	UNIX
35	Check closely	EXAMINE
37	Gobble down	SNARF
39	Muckraker Tarbell	IDA
40	An American abroad	EXPAT
44	Like Brutalist architecture	AUSTERE
47	Top-notch	A-ONE
48	Utah’s ___ Canyon	BRYCE
50	Annual Austin festival, for short	SXSW
52	Prince George, to Prince William	SON
53	Like a dog on a walk, usually	LEASHED
55	Haul	TOTE
57	Tuna type	AHI
58	Nonhumanities subjects, for short	STEM
60	Immature	UNRIPE
63	Vain queen who boasted that she was more beautiful than 18-Across	CASSIOPEIA
66	Object of worship	IDOL
67	“Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” musical	EVITA
68	Actor Epps	OMAR
69	Chasers in many a chase scene	COPS
70	Mails	SENDS
71	Upscale	TONY
72	Place to play musical spoons	KNEE

Down

Number	Clues	Answers
1	It ebbs and flows	TIDE
2	Hoodwink	HOAX
3	Where 63-Across ruled prior to her banishment	ETHIOPIA
4	Locales for many food courts	MALLS
5	Finish	GET DONE
6	“Go, team!”	RAH!
7	Finished	OVER
8	Big factor in longevity	GENES
9	Football field marking	YARD LINE
10	Mature	AGE
11	Shortening brand	CRISCO
12	Garden dividers	HEDGES
13	Lab work	TESTS
19	Long, thin mushroom	ENOKI
21	Herd at Yellowstone	ELK
26	“She” responds to voice commands	ALEXA
27	Director Van Sant	GUS
28	Writer Beattie	ANN
30	One end of a maze	EXIT
31	Moves like a heron	WADES
34	Checks for a fracture, perhaps	X-RAYS
36	“Das Kapital” author	MARX
38	Purplish-red flowers	FUCHSIAS
41	God who banished 63-Across to the sky, as depicted by the constellation formed by the X’s in this puzzle’s finished grid	POSEIDON
42	Year abroad	ANO
43	Base ___	TEN
45	Handle	SEE TO
46	Where a river meets the sea	ESTUARY
48	Sit quietly, perhaps	BEHAVE
49	Cereal fruit	RAISIN
51	Took gold	WON
53	Gets ready to play hockey, with “up”	LACES
54	Train stop	DEPOT
56	Guessing a number an audience member has thought of, e.g.	TRICK
59	Office note	MEMO
61	Alexander who wrote “The Dunciad”	POPE
62	Besides	ELSE
64	Norm: Abbr.	STD
65	English novelist McEwan	IAN