NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Loud commotion 4 Yeshiva leader

9 Films on a

grand scale

14 Year, in Spain 15 Ifa>bandb>c, then a > c, e.g. 16 Kind of lily 17 Winter solstice mo. 18 Lowest point for Americans?

20 Crow

22 Like nylon stockings 23 Audi rival

24 Like the architecture of many cathedrals 27 Visibly blushing 29 American-made sports car with a V-10 engine 32 Plains Indian 33 Posted announcement at a theater entrance 34 Andean capital 35 Southernmost

of the Ivies

36 Bass, e.g.

40 Storage tower 43 Mount that has an insurance company named after it 44 Commotion

47 Solvers’ cries

48 Film character who says “Give yourself to the dark side” 51 Poll worker’s request 53 From the beginning: Lat.

54 Prefix with center 55 Nosy sort

58 ___ room (postdebate area) 59 Prototype, maybe 63 Item in Santa’s bag 64 Exhaust

65 Dim with tears 66 Closemouthed

67 Blog entries

68 More or less, informally 69 Letter before tee DOWN 1 Some schlumpy male physiques 2 Mistakenly

3 “Sorry, Charlie!” 4 Wicked cool

5 Dismiss abruptly 6 Favoritism

7 Not just one or the other

8 Arriver’s cry

9 Online greeting

10 Bud

11 “O.K., tell me more” 12 The Tigers of the A.C.C. 13 Pourer’s instruction 19 Zig or zag

21 [This tastes awful!] 25 Prefix with commute 26 ___ Wilcox, daughter in E. M. Forster’s “Howards End” 28 Amazing, in slang 30 Rapscallion

31 Road worker

36 Rx detail

37 Mel who was the first N.L.’er to hit 500 home runs 38 How many TV shows

are shown nowadays 39 Give in

40 Put some

money away 41 “Fingers crossed!” 42 SoCal daily

44 Sign on a real or virtual pet 45 Tricky … or a tricky description of 18-, 29-, 36-, 48- and 59-Across 46 Words and phrases that sound approximately alike, like “ice scream” and “I scream”

48 Eat stylishly

49 Cute, in modern

slang

50 Reply to a ques. 52 Replies to

an invitation

56 ___ Accords (1990s

peace agreements) 57 Common fishing spot 60 Openly gay

61 ___ bran

62 Org. that sticks

to its guns?