NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Perennial campaign

issue

5 Airplane wing feature 9 Cool, giant sun

14 Taken by mouth 15 Sweat spot

16 Remote control button 17 Grinder

18 Totally focused 19 Brooding worry

20 Big part of the New World

23 It’s pitched with a pitchfork 24 Present oneself falsely 28 Greek island in the Aegean Sea 31 Common supply for a party

33 One cause for an R rating 34 Wagering venue, briefly 35 Like some missiles 38 Onetime Volvo

competitor 39 Compromise … or a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s shaded squares

43 Bad temper

44 Flashy 1940s

men’s attire

45 Lead-in to bred

or behaved

46 Channel for “Conan” 49 ___-Caps

(theater candy) 50 Faux ___

51 Seaside cookout 54 Fast-food chain with a goateed spokesman 56 Flashing light phenomenon 61 Ridiculous

64 Pink

65 Humdinger

66 Arms and legs

67 “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,” e.g. 68 10-Down resident 69 On the nose

70 What’s happening and when, informally 71 Recorded message prompt

DOWN

1 Donald ___ Trump 2 ___ Blizzard (Dairy Queen offering) 3 Roseanne of “Roseanne”

4 Animal that hangs upside down in trees 5 Graffiti artist’s tool 6 Rich soil

7 Big name in beauty products

8 Game craze of the late 1980s and ’90s 9 Falcon rocket launcher 10 Yemen’s capital

11 Pull 12 Nativity scene figure 13 Emeritus: Abbr. 21 Country to which Frederick Douglass was a U.S. ambassador 22 Natalie Cole’s “___ Got Love on My Mind” 25 Pack, as a car for travel 26 Napoli’s nation 27 Field where Jackie Robinson played 28 Like the meter in sonnets

29 Ed of “Modern Family” 30 Popular Belgian

beer, for short 32 Fictional tree creature 36 Carmel finish? 37 Letters on an AM dial 38 1960s radical grp. 40 Canon model 41 Tinkered (with) 42 “Knock ___!” 46 Intradermal diagnostic,

for short

47 Many a lounge 48 Some tennis wear 52 “___ Live” (daytime

news program) 53 Kindle material

55 B equivalent

57 Salinger dedicatee 58 Tip of France?

59 Family

60 Idiot box 61 ___-de-France

62 Put the kibosh on 63 Operator’s org.?