NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Delights

5 James or Luther of R&B 11 Liberal arts dept. 14 Further 15 Orator who declared “Laws are silent in times of war” 16 Drink mentioned in the chorus of “American Pie” 17 Words spoken just before a TV commercial

19 I.R.S. form

5498 subj. 20 Powerful bloodline? 21 “The Black Tulip”

author

23 Polo, for one 26 Words of

retraction 29 Bad-weather gear 31 Transfer

32 Hebrides isle

33 Pie flavor

36 Credit Suisse rival 39 Comment upon making a fateful decision 42 Attention

43 Swim meet event 44 Brand with “Thick & Fluffy” products 45 Heaven 47 Proceed smoothly 49 “Uh-oh, here they are again” 53 Second-generation Japanese-American 54 Pro and Mini purchases 55 Per person

57 Man’s name that’s three consecutive letters of the alphabet 58 Angry words said after “Get out of here!” 64 Munchkin

65 Battle of ___ (1797

Napoleon victory) 66 State

67 Person using

binoculars, maybe 68 Told tales

69 Able to move nicely

DOWN

1 Gab

2 Shout accented on the second syllable 3 Fashion inits.

4 Vehicle that gets cell service?

5 One doing a mob hit 6 Mob boss Frank 7 I.M.’ing option

8 Agcy. issuance

9 NPR journalist Shapiro 10 He adopted Esther in the Book of Esther 11 Sex drive and others 12 Variety of dark-skinned grape 13 Winemaking need 18 This and that 22 Actress Hagen 23 Hurt maliciously 24 Kerfuffle

25 What kindness and honesty reveal

27 Saw

28 Musician with the 1987 instrumental hit “Songbird”

30 Stew (over) 34 “Whereupon …” 35 Cambodia’s Lon ___ 37 General Mills

corn snack bit 38 Absolut rival, informally 40 Go-between

41 Bases of TED talks 46 Acid

48 Go ___ great length 49 Essences

50 “Gimme a high-five!” 51 Wore

52 More than 1% or 2% 56 Tennyson’s

“Geraint and ___” 59 Long in Hollywood 60 Binge-watching aid, in brief 61 There’s one for every season, for short 62 Poetic contraction 63 Shout