NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Doofus

5 Campus bigwig

9 Leave standing at the altar

13 Greek counterpart to Mars

14 “Tickle Me” doll 15 Walks in water up to one’s ankles, say 16 Early radio transmitter 18 Download for a Kindle 19 Deep-frying need 20 “The Farmer in the ___” 22 Letter after “ar” 23 Apply gently, as cream 25 Part of “business,”

phonetically 30 “Raiders of the Lost

Ark” star

32 102, in ancient Rome 34 Common Market

letters

35 A sensible sort

36 Like a sorry-looking

dog

38 Tiny

40 Very thin, as clouds 41 How some ground balls

are fielded

43 Longtime news inits. 45 “___ whillikers!” 46 One-cent coin since

1909

49 Ballet footwear 50 Email address ending

for a student

51 Busy bee in Apr.

54 Oil cartel

56 Useful item for finding

a lost pet

58 Brief brawl 62 Common game in a

school gym 64 Soothing succulents 65 U2’s lead singer 66 Biblical brother with a birthright

67 Bad thing to blow … or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents 68 Greek H’s

69 Some whistle blowers

DOWN

1 Wash oneself 2 Stackable cookies 3 Citrus peels 4 Norway’s capital 5 Announce

6 “Xanadu” band, for short

7 In the thick of

8 At least

9 The “one” in a one-two 10 Vow from a bride or groom

11 Sign between Cancer and Virgo 12 “Shame on you!” 15 “Ver-r-ry interesting!” 17 Elton John/Tim Rice Broadway musical 21 11-Down symbol 24 Prepare, as tea 26 Dummy at a protest march

27 Lasso loop

28 Figure of speech 29 Without purpose 30 Hard-to-hit pitches 31 Freeze

32 Tragic clown in

“Pagliacci”

33 Lacking sense

36 Shed old feathers 37 Casual calls

39 Blade in a sporting

match

42 Alka-Seltzer sound 44 Blue hues

47 As required, after “if” 48 Classic art subject 51 Pursue, as in tag 52 Rice dish

53 Highest possible grade 55 Geezer

57 Trucker on a radio 58 Never left the bench,

say

59 Inventor Whitney 60 Craggy peak

61 Letter after 22-Across 63 Paternity identifier