NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stitches

5 Old workplace sitcom with Danny Devito as a dispatcher

9 Flashy effect

14 Honolulu’s island

15 “Terrible” Russian despot

16 Many a New Year’s resolution prescribes getting into it

17 Not strict adherence to what really happened, say

20 Convenience at a business that doesn’t take credit cards

21 Confirmed the flavor of

22 Biblical garden

23 Surefire winner

25 Bewhiskered river swimmer

27 Touched down

29 “Be that as it may …”

33 When a fresh factory crew arrives

38 Singer Yoko

39 Elusive Tupperware components, often

40 Air quality watchdog created by the Nixon admin.

41 Norway’s capital

42 Web address

43 Archipelago forming the southernmost part of the continental U.S.

47 Gloomy pal of Winnie-the-pooh

49 Auditioner’s goal

50 Newborn horses 53 Run for a long football pass

57 Singer Edith known as “The Little Sparrow” 60 Disappear

62 “Despicable Me” character voiced by Steve Carell

63 Member of an N.F.L. team transplanted to Los Angeles in 2017

66 “Could you, would you, with ___?” (Dr. Seuss line)

67 Black-and-white Nabisco cookie

68 Medics

69 Annual awards … like the one actor Shalhoub won in 2018

70 Fret (over)

71 Poker buy-in

DOWN

1 Fizzy drinks

2 Our planet

3 Company that makes Frisbees

4 Redundant word in front of “total”

5 Passenger ship in a 1912 calamity

6 Hertz rival

7 Hobbyist’s knife brand 8 Cove

9 PC panic button

10 Upbeat

11 Touch down

12 Church recess

13 Someone who is not yet 20

18 Leaning

19 Canine collar dangler

24 Lummoxes

26 WSW’S opposite

28 Letter you don’t pronounce in “jeopardy” and “leopard”

30 Garden waterer

31 “It’s ___ a matter of time”

32 Pursues romantically

33 Swivel around

34 Add to the payroll

35 Without really thinking

36 Mo. for fools and showers

37 Hair removal cream brand

41 Approved

43 To and ___

44 Order to party crashers

45 Annual Westminster event

46 Hawaiian greeting

48 Time of lackluster performance

51 Largest city and former capital of Nigeria

52 Derisive laugh sound

54 Prod

55 Standing upright

56 Where the endings of 17-, 33-, 43- and

63-Across are often found

57 Exam for sophs. or jrs.

58 “Othello” villain

59 In a little while

61 Drink that can cause brain freeze

64 “___ never too late to learn”

65 Abbr. on old vitamin bottles