NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Snake charmer’s snake 6 Smile from ear to ear 10 Preceder of

“two, three, four” 13 Geographer’s reference 14 Middle-earth area under the Misty Mountains 15 Volcanic debris 16 Union representative 18 Pi follower 19 Car-pool lane designation 20 Manning manning the Giants’ backfield 21 Mature 23 Louisiana Purchase region from

1838 to 1846

28 Savory taste of MSG 30 Lends a hand

31 Seize, as formerly

held land

33 Samovar

34 “Mr. Robot” network 37 What’s found hidden inside 16-, 23-, 47and 59-Across

41 A&E, in D.C.? 42 Onetime Mets

manager Hodges 43 Navigated against,

as the current 44 Barely gets (by) 46 Fixtures in Pillsbury

facilities

47 Job at a circus

53 How a dying

machine goes 54 Path of the moon through the sky 55 Glass of public radio 58 Prelude to a kiss 59 Spring greeting 64 Clear (of)

65 Sri Lanka’s nearest neighbor

66 “Muy ___!”

67 ___ Technica, website with gadget news 68 “Holy Toledo!” 69 Brought to a conclusion

DOWN

1 Dollars and cents 2 Roman emperor

of A.D. 69

3 Goes on and on

about nothing

4 Genre for DJ Khaled 5 Beast of burden

6 Kind of knife

7 Victorian ___

8 Scuba tankful

9 Home of the Prado Museum

10 ___ Productions, Oprah Winfrey enterprise 11 One walking down the aisle 12 Faker

14 Hot sandwich 17 Darjeeling, for one 22 “___ a beautiful day in the neighborhood”: Mr. Rogers 24 General Bradley, W.W. II commander 25 Collaborative online site

26 Still red in the middle 27 Fruit roll-ups?

28 Cities, informally 29 Bump into

32 Georgia of “The Mary

Tyler Moore Show” 33 Internet address 34 Not deserved

35 Bring to a standstill,

say

36 “Raiders of the

Lost Ark” menaces 38 General idea 39 “Victory is mine!” 40 Window shade? 44 Runner with wings 45 TV host ___ Lee Gifford 47 Director Kurosawa 48 Lowest point

49 Music players

of the 2000s

50 Word before fire or transit

51 ___ Stark, “Game of Thrones” protagonist 52 Makeup of Saturn’s rings, mostly 56 Philosopher Descartes 57 Former Yank with 25 career grand slams 60 Director Lee

61 Holding hands or kissing on the street, in brief 62 Vigoda of old

TV and movies 63 Morning riser