NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Praise

8 Have a bug, say 11 Boathouse item 14 Weakness

15 Cellular carrier? 16 Move along 17 Self-deprecatingly titled instructional book series

18 He shared a Nobel Prize with de Klerk 20 Used a scope

22 Got off the bottle 23 “White Flag” singer, 2003

26 Golfer’s goof

28 Actress Cheryl or Diane 29 Financial mogul Carl 31 To’s partner 32 Griminess

33 Brilliance

35 Piece of cake? 37 German “the” 38 Easy-to-park vehicles … or what can be found four times in this puzzle

41 It can be hard to process

43 Big loss, figuratively 44 Warren Buffett, notably 47 Some corporate jets 49 It ends with “zyzzyva,” in brief

51 Certain ticket category 52 “… if you ___!” 53 Tolkien dragon 55 Calamine target 56 European nation since 1993

58 Praise

60 Vituperative sorts 62 Reins cats and dogs? 66 Took first

67 Gym unit

68 Support, as a cause 69 Qantas hub, on tickets 70 Dolt

71 “Casey at the Bat” autobiographer

DOWN

1 Meet the expense of 2 Word on a magnum 3 2015 N.F.L. M.V.P. Newton

4 City in which “Glee” is set

5 Listed “others” 6 Gossip column fodder 7 Walt Whitman’s “Song of ___”

8 The Adriatic vis-à-vis the Mediterranean 9 Gobsmacked 10 Bowling reservation 11 Easily decided 12 Longtime TV exec Roone 13 Access to a treehouse, maybe 19 “Lobster Telephone” artist 21 Bargain-priced 23 Archaeological site 24 Some bling 25 Evade, as a sensitive topic

27 San Francisco’s

___ Tower

30 Puts to sleep, say 32 Histrionics

34 Facial spot

36 Start to terrorism

or tourism

39 Tiny power source 40 Hilton alternative 41 Proverbs

42 Pinocchio, by the

film’s conclusion 45 Liquor: Abbr.

46 Last in a math series 48 Intensifies,

with “up”

50 Airport whose main terminal was designed by Eero Saarinen 53 Winter vacation destination

54 Most over the top 57 Bubble-filled Nestlé chocolate bar 59 Tailor’s aid

61 50 is a very high one, in brief

63 Warm greeting 64 Common linguistic suffix 65 Pommes frites seasoning