NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Possesses 4 Grape-Nuts or Apple Jacks 10 Ewe’s offspring 14 Man’s name that’s an investment spelled backward 15 Pumpkin color 16 Revered one 17 Pot’s cover 18 Traditional night for partying

20 Side of a diamond 22 Thomas ___, “Rule, Britannia” composer 23 Bowling target 24 Texas landmark to “remember” 27 Sampled

29 Curved Pillsbury item 33 Misplace

34 “The Way We ___” 35 “Yeah, right!”

39 Pie ___ mode 40 Detectives

42 Batman portrayer

Kilmer

43 Deserve 45 ___-Pacific

(geopolitical region) 46 Something to

click online

47 Ones calling the plays 50 Teeter-totter

53 Walk with a swagger 54 Every last drop 55 Parade spoiler 58 “Piece of cake” or “easy as pie” 61 40-hour-a-week work 65 Guadalajara gold 66 Actress Falco of “Nurse Jackie” 67 “Hot” Mexican dish 68 Prefix with natal or classical 69 Clarinet or sax 70 Crossed home plate, say

71 One who might follow into a family business

DOWN

1 50%

2 Song for a diva 3 Early TV comic known for “Your Show of Shows” 4 Popular cold and flu medicine

5 “But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight …” 6 Uncooked 7 One-named

Irish singer

8 Ending with golden or teen 9 Makeshift shelter 10 Fleur-de-___

11 Highly capable 12 Multiplex offering 13 Mix

19 Kingdoms 21 “Anything ___?” 25 Whimper like a baby 26 Like most Bluetooth headsets 28 Underhanded 29 Tight-lipped sort 30 Part to play

31 Be confident in 32 Fixes, as shoelaces 36 Forcible removals,

as of tenants

37 Pull hard 38 Civic-minded

group

40 Fictional mouse

___ Little

41 Male deer

44 Mensa stats

46 Lavish praise on 48 Hangs around for 49 Gave some money

under the table 50 More secure

51 Give the slip 52 Actress Kemper of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

56 Apple on a desk 57 Pixar’s “Finding ___” 59 Nabisco snack

since 1912

60 It has phases that are represented by the starts of 18-, 29-, 47and 61-Across … and by 1-Down

62 Was in front

63 Pickle holder 64 Bullfight cheer