NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Power figure?

5 Parts of airplane wings 10 “South Park” kid voiced by Trey Parker 14 Victims of the fictional Morlocks 15 Fabric with diagonal ridges

16 1993 Branch Davidians/ F.B.I. standoff site 17 Rob of “Parks and Recreation” 18 Damage beyond repair 19 What a prep course preps for

20 Where caribou roam 22 Big workers’ grp. 24 Hip-hop group with the triple-platinum album “Black Sunday”

28 Area in a sultan’s

palace, once

30 Goat’s bleat

31 Artful deception 34 Dwarf planet

beyond Pluto 35 Carried, as by the wind 37 Nabokov novel 38 Near-impossibility

on a par-4 hole

39 One waving a red cape 41 Roadside bomb, briefly 42 Confusing situation

… or what this puzzle contains literally? 45 Rock’s Cream was one 46 Change the décor of 47 Nelson Mandela’s org. 49 Marriage

51 Lead-in to plop or plunk 54 Evidence in paternity suits 55 Chicago mayor Rahm 57 Mother in a pen 59 Landscaper’s neatener 61 Mormons, in brief 62 Very, in music

64 Petty swindle

65 Risk a perjury rap 66 Insignificant sort 67 Pick up on

68 Magic 8 Ball response 69 “Siddhartha” author

DOWN

1 Evidence of a whipping 2 Surname of three Giants outfielders in 1963

3 News spreader

of long ago

4 Colors, hippie-style 5 Polaris, e.g.,

in astronomy 6 Durocher in the Baseball Hall of Fame 7 Dealmaking, some say

8 ___ Tour

9 Interjection occurring frequently in Psalms 10 Become bloated 11 Accountants’ service for low-income individuals 12 Smoothie berry 13 Hideo ___, 1995 N.L. Rookie of the Year 21 Tachometer abbr. 23 Garden of Eden tree 25 With more heart than head

26 Kitchen wrap brand

27 Birds found in semideserts 28 ___-seeking missile 29 Keystone’s place

32 “In ___ of flowers …” 33 Two slices of a loaf 35 The “Ba” of BaSO4 36 Epoch characterized by

the rise of mammals 39 La Baltique,

par exemple

40 Free (of)

43 Yadda, yadda, yadda 44 Soldier from Seoul 47 Traitorous Major ___ of

the Revolutionary War 48 Ray ___, mayor of New

Orleans during Katrina 50 Many a low-budget film 52 Pothook shapes 53 Leonine sounds 54 M.B.A. and Ph.D., for two 55 “Symphony in Black” artist

56 Backing for plaster 58 Moist towelette 60 They’re worth 0

toward G.P.A.s 63 Abba’s home: Abbr.