NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Goldilocks”the hardest bed bear with

5 Birds that waddle 10 Bridge

14 Wyatt at the O.K. Corral 15 Dickens’s ___ Heep 16 Syrup brand used in making pecan pie 17 Is ready for one’s star turn, say

20 So-so

21 Exuberance

22 Word accompanying a head slap

23 1992 Tarantino crime thriller 27 Scene not used for the final version of a film 28 Latticework strip

29 Stat for A-Rod or

Hammerin’ Hank 30 Snow ___ (kids’

winter construction) 32 Hangmen’s loops 36 Falsetto-voiced Muppet 38 Cookout, briefly … or a hint to the ends of 17-, 23-, 52- and 58-Across 40 Fill a position 41 Permeate

44 Bird feeder material 47 Rickey or gimlet

ingredient

48 Hearty brews 50 Embarrassed 52 Children of armed forces personnel, slangily 55 Welcome sight? 56 Org. that defends individual rights 57 Bro’s sibling 58 Fast, sharp-breaking curveballs 64 Hanker (for) 65 Rimshot instrument 66 Member of an elite Navy team 67 Miso bean 68 Letter-shaped track in metalworking 69 Anything-goes party

DOWN

1 Parishioner’s

bench

2 Smallish battery 3 8:00-11:00 p.m. on TV 4 H.S. exam graded

on a five-point scale 5 Drunk motorist’s

offense, briefly 6 Decorative vase

7 Oil company with

a triangular logo

8 ___ Gibran, author of

“The Prophet”

9 Ed with the 2017 #1 hit “Shape of You”

10 Hit the slopes 11 Consumer products giant that makes Tide, for short 12 Mythical 100eyed giant

13 Snack (on)

18 Bundle of papers 19 Fixated on,

as an idea 23 Pound : U.K. :: ___ : Russia

24 “King Kong” and “Citizen Kane” studio 25 Noun go-with

26 Cry before “I know!,” in a classroom 27 They’re mined and refined 31 Atlanta-based cable inits.

33 Tourist

34 Iroquois foes

35 Email button 37 October birthstone 39 Platform for

loading ships

42 Epic poem written in

Homeric Greek 43 Bottom-line

expense

45 Recede, as the tide 46 Ankle bones 49 Places for mani-pedis 51 Laid down the law 52 National auto body repair chain

53 Like wool on bare skin, typically 54 Neither urban nor suburban 55 Degs. held by Bloomberg and

G. W. Bush

59 Mauna ___ (volcano) 60 Sign for a sold-out

show

61 Do-over in tennis 62 What an old shirt

may be used as 63 Foxy