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The full solution for the NY Times Crossword puzzle on Tuesday May 21, 2024 is displayed below.
| 1 Hit a serve past | ACED |
| 5 Ballet dancer's bend | PLIE |
| 9 Lightens (up) | EASES |
| 14 Word after golden or slide | RULE |
| 15 Often-discarded part of a fruit | RIND |
| 16 Canonized person | SAINT |
| 17 Cheat sheets | CRIBNOTES |
| 19 Post-panel sesh | QANDA |
| 20 Male cat | TOM |
| 21 Big name in public opinion research | PEW |
| 23 It might be poked | FUN |
| 24 Cry of disgust that sounds like 24-Down | UGH |
| 27 Fruit also known as calabash | BOTTLEGOURD |
| 31 "Yeah, I suppose" | GUESSSO |
| 33 Soup kitchen utensils | LADLES |
| 34 Stare open-mouthed | GAPE |
| 35 Target, as a wide receiver | PASSTO |
| 38 Outbuilding for many a historic home | CARRIAGEHOUSE |
| 43 Millennial's successor, informally | GENZER |
| 44 Tennis do-overs | LETS |
| 46 "That's pretty nifty!" | OHNEAT |
| 49 Fashion house whose logo features Medusa | VERSACE |
| 52 Counterpart to a landline | MOBILEPHONE |
| 55 Appreciative text | THX |
| 56 Schedule abbr. | ETA |
| 57 Middle name for Alec Baldwin and Carly Jepsen | RAE |
| 58 Go the other way | ZAG |
| 60 Indian royals | RAJAS |
| 63 Make safer, in a way ... or what the starts of 17-, 27-, 38- and 52-Across might be? | BABYPROOF |
| 68 Pageant topper | TIARA |
| 69 Often-discarded part of a fruit | STEM |
| 70 Inactive | IDLE |
| 71 One-___ bandit | ARMED |
| 72 Biblical pronoun | THEE |
| 73 Nonnegotiable thing | NEED |
| 1 Airplane's path on a flight map, often | ARC |
| 2 Junkyard dog | CUR |
| 3 Roth of "Inglourious Basterds" | ELI |
| 4 Red scare? | DEBT |
| 5 Sneak previews | PROMOS |
| 6 Happening, in modern parlance | LIT |
| 7 Bumbling | INEPT |
| 8 Old car make named for Henry Ford's son | EDSEL |
| 9 Abbr. on a lawyer's business card | ESQ |
| 10 Highly rated, as a bond | AAA |
| 11 Iniquitous | SINFUL |
| 12 Stick it out | ENDURE |
| 13 Array at a farmer's market | STANDS |
| 18 Noggins | NOBS |
| 22 Language in which "w" can be a vowel | WELSH |
| 24 Australian boot brand | UGG |
| 25 Green dip, familiarly | GUAC |
| 26 Purifying filter acronym | HEPA |
| 28 November birthstone | TOPAZ |
| 29 One purring in Peru | GATO |
| 30 Nonalcoholic beer brand | ODOULS |
| 32 Composer Rachmaninoff | SERGEI |
| 36 Ripen | AGE |
| 37 Kind of motor used in robotics | SERVO |
| 39 Down-to-earth | REAL |
| 40 Lead-in to mingle or mezzo | INTER |
| 41 Ticket assignment | SEAT |
| 42 Cut quite a figure? | ETCH |
| 45 Something a prenatal ultrasound can determine | SEX |
| 46 Mafia code of silence | OMERTA |
| 47 Windbag's output | HOTAIR |
| 48 Classic video game with the catchphrase "He's on fire!" | NBAJAM |
| 50 Biological catalyst | ENZYME |
| 51 Collect what's been sown | REAP |
| 53 "Blue Ribbon" brewer | PABST |
| 54 Toffee bar brand since 1928 | HEATH |
| 59 Beam | GRIN |
| 61 "What ___ the odds?" | ARE |
| 62 Down in the dumps | SAD |
| 64 Wax producer | BEE |
| 65 Shelley's "To a Skylark," for one | ODE |
| 66 World Cup chant | OLE |
| 67 Put quarters in, as a meter | FED |