NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ties to the Japanese? 5 Order

10 Some shells 15 Malodorous

16 Go ___ (be green, in a way)

17 Opposition bloc

18 “Well, well, well!” 19 “Don’t be a stranger!” 21 Starting points

23 Fading light

24 “Bel ___” (Guy de Maupassant novel) 25 Put down in words 27 Shade of red

31 Divine nourishment 33 & 35 Cole Porter

musical 36 Undisturbed

38 ___ Na Na

41 Increase in size

42 & 44 “You can wait to

show your gratitude” 46 Like

48 Repeated word in the Ten Commandments 51 Least polluted

54 & 56 Clothing item for the youngest in the family

58 It may fool you 59 Denial of responsibility 62 Low-lying wetland 64 Best ___ Album

(Grammy category) 65 “I’ll think about it” 67 Thumbs-up, e.g.

69 “Don’t be a stranger!” … or what you have to do three times in this puzzle

73 Gets a move on 74 Country/rock singer Steve

75 Connected to a hipbone

76 To be where people sing of amour?

77 It’s snowy in Florida 78 O’hara’s portrayer 79 P.D.A. component: Abbr.

DOWN

1 Paperwork?

2 Word with second or third, but not fourth or fifth

3 Faster than you can say Jack Robinson

4 Kind of terrier

5 Ridge formed by glacial

streams

6 Manages

7 Suffix with percent 8 “Get it?”

9 Barbershop request 10 Oscar nominee for

“Lion,” 2016

11 Bit of Inuit gear

12 Good name for a mess hall cook

13 Little bit of personality 14 Shade of gray 20 MS followers?

22 Go after, as a fly

26 Poetic contraction usually at the start of a line

28 Newbies in the work force

29 Seventh of 24 30 Western moniker 32 Org. behind the Human Genome Project 34 Pizzeria owner in “Do the Right Thing” 37 Durham sch.

39 Park ranger’s handout 40 Practice pieces 43 Elizabethan dramatist Thomas

45 Prior to, in verse

46 “Kung Fu” actor Philip 47 Thai neighbor

49 French white wine 50 “Gross!”

52 Eagles and hawks, typically

53 Prepare for printing 55 Feature of a baby face 57 “Stop! I don’t need to be constantly reminded!”

60 “Oleanna” playwright

61 Check out

63 Hanger-on

66 Try to stay afloat, perhaps

68 Mother of Helios

69 Fourth of 26

70 It may collect dust 71 Hockey great Bobby 72 Sequel to a sequel