NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Leatherworker’s tool 4 Wrath 7 Sauce often used in a Bloody Mary 14 Port-au-Prince resident 16 “Um-hmm, O.K.” 17 Call from a football referee 18 “Please! Anything but!” 19 Onion relative used in soups 20 Little troublemakers 22 Charged particles 23 M.R.I. orderers 24 Versatile bean 25 Texas site of a 1993 siege 27 Itsy-bitsy branch 29 Some DVD players 31 Caustic agent 34 Japan’s largest company by revenue 36 Crops used in making cigarettes 38 Ready, willing and ___ 39 Classic Eric Clapton song about unrequited love 41 Statutes 42 Loses one’s hair 44 Hold back, as a yawn 46 Moment, informally 47 World’s fair, e.g. 48 Wish 49 Like the water in a baptism 51 Get bent out of shape 53 ___ talks (lecture series) 56 Busy time at the drive- thru 58 Nay voter 59 It’s made up of DNA 60 Message that might end “R.I.P.” 63 Invaded in large numbers 65 17-year insects 66 Standards by which things are measured 67 Follows, as a schedule 68 Monterrey Mrs. 69 Consumed

DOWN

1 Get ___ of (grasp) 2 Communion tidbit 3 Vegetarianism or bohemianism 4 Three on a grandfather clock 5 Source of faraway X-rays 6 Foe 7 Pantry containers 8 Long, long ___ 9 Web crawler, e.g. 10 Web-filled room, often 11 Spot for a food fight 12 Jackie of “Shanghai Knights” 13 Honey Bunches of ___ 15 “Shameful!” 21 Really revel … or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters 24 Take a chair 25 Indiana/Illinois separator 26 White ___ sheet 28 Troubles 30 Kurtz’s rank in “Apocalypse Now”: Abbr. 32 Mournful cry 33 To be, to Tacitus 34 Little things that say “To” and “From” 35 Orchestra reed 37 Scissor cut 40 Swiss mount 43 ___ Paese (variety of cheese) 45 Spinning toy 50 Like beer that’s not in a bottle 52 Things split in fission 54 Make into 41-Across 55 Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree 56 Part bitten by a vampire 57 Mayberry boy 58 “I understand,” facetiously 59 Hound’s warning 61 Many online banners 62 Bit of butter 64 When a plane is due in, for short