New YOrk TimeS crOSSwOrD

ACROSS

1 Three-letter sandwich 4 Ballroom dance

from Cuba

9 Put up with

14 Period in history

15 In the city

16 Front and back halves of a golf course, often 17 Stick connected to a reel

18 Article of headwear for an explosives engineer? 20 Words before an expiration date 22 Appear to be 23 Stashed away 24 Poem with a dedicatee 26 Where tapas are enjoyed 28 Install, as a light bulb 32 Breadth

35 Article of neckwear for the Stooges? 37 Comedian Issa ___ 38 Set-asides for

old age, for short 39 “Today” rival, in brief 40 Artist Chagall or

N.B.A. player Gasol 41 Dispenser candy 42 Wrist accessory for a celebrity magazine editor? 46 Had a video call with 48 Funeral vehicles 49 “Let me give

you a ride!” 51 ___ Speed Wagon (old vehicle)

52 “Help us!,” at sea 53 Frog and ___ (friends in a children’s book series)

56 Halo sporter

60 Waist accessory for a Russian cook? 63 Beam of sunlight 64 Made less difficult 65 Not go together fashionwise

66 Dog’s sound

67 Put vinaigrette on, perhaps 68 Groups of bison 69 Three-letter sandwich

DOWN

1 Lima’s home

2 Frat dudes

3 Stone prized in China 4 Actress in “Do the Right Thing” and the “Roots” miniseries 5 Address containing

“www”

6 Execs’ degrees,

often

7 First, second or third 8 Pays for a hand 9 Peebles in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame 10 Chart-topper 11 Burn to a crisp 12 Having a battery that’s out of juice 13 Psychic’s purported ability, for short 19 Architect of the Louvre Pyramid 21 Unfun sorts 25 “Yucky!”

27 Guitar, in slang 28 Ogre with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

29 Noted Lakota leader 30 “I hate the Moor” speaker, in Shakespeare

31 Naiad or dryad

33 Drug bust officers 34 PC fixer

35 Rewards for waiting? 36 “A ___ of Two Cities” 40 Perry who lost only one

case in his career 42 Vivacity

43 Wharton or Piaf 44 Musical ability 45 Christmas door

decorations

47 Groups in westerns 50 V-shaped cut

52 Fly high

54 Up to the task

55 ___ John

57 Seize

58 Grey’s title, in

the tea aisle

59 Uber competitor 60 Making it is a chore 61 Contents of jewel cases 62 Trippy drug