NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Once around the track 4 Orange-nosed Muppet 8 Bump against in a

crowd

14 Hospital dept. for the

neediest cases 15 Document showing

ownership

16 Loose, as shoelaces 17 *Something to “take me out to,” in an old song

19 Hershey’s coconut candy bar

20 “Sounds right to me” 21 Close buddy, in a modern coinage 22 Weight watcher’s plan 23 *The presidency, e.g. 29 Desert refuges 31 Crushing defeat

32 Strip in a window blind

33 Trains like Chicago’s 35 Estate in “Gone With the Wind”

37 George Gershwin’s brother/partner 38 *Unpleasant tidings 42 *Means of locating one from the herd

44 Thrilla in Manila victor

45 Great ___ of China 47 Neither’s partner 48 Where a nuthatch hatches

50 Circle

52 Not watertight 56 *Drama department production

59 Falco with Emmys for two different series 60 “Well, what have we here?!”

61 Flicks that sometimes end in weddings 63 Prohibit

66 “Wow!” ... and a hint to both halves of the answers to the starred clues

67 Guarantee

68 Fox talent show winner 69 Brian who coined the term “ambient music” 70 Performed some hiphop

71 Big Board inits.

72 Trifling amount

DOWN

1 Sexual appetite 2 Maine’s national park 3 Rhythmic heartbeats

4 Uptight

5 Dog strap

6 Account of one’s earlier days

7 Keats’s tribute to an urn, e.g.

8 Giant-sized TV, as in a stadium

9 Like a two-position electrical switch

10 Fills tightly

11 Its symbol is Sn

12 Was the front-runner

13 Some mag. workers 18 Triangular sail 24 Comprehended

25 1950s Communistbashing grp. in Congress

26 Nastase of 1970s tennis

27 Astronomer Sagan 28 Latin list lopper, in brief 30 Whole lot

34 Gulped down

36 G.I. who’s way off base 38 Prohibits

39 Knighted actor Guinness

40 Bowl or plate

41 Swill for swine

43 Kind of birth with a rear-first delivery 46 Texter’s guffaw

49 Get ready for production, as a factory

51 Satirical work, like “Bored of the Rings” 53 Homes made of sundried bricks

54 “Madama Butterfly” dress

55 Response to “Who, me?”

57 Airport for a Bull or a Bear

58 Toys on strings

62 Spy on the inside

63 Boat propeller

64 ___ Today

65 Cough syrup amt. 66 Recycling container