NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Vehicles on snowcovered hills

6 Watering place for a camel

11 Indoor animal

14 “The Fox and the Grapes” storyteller 15 Trick-taking card game 16 Messenger ___

17 Large bird of prey with a brownish-yellow neck 19 Suffix with cynic or skeptic

20 Pleased

21 Hombre

22 Pool stick

23 Make excited, as a crowd

26 Smooshed into compact layers

28 ___ carte (ordered separately)

29 Blue race in “Avatar” 31 Kind of pickle

32 ___ for tat

33 Actor Kevin whose last name shares four letters with his first

35 Eric Clapton hit that's over seven minutes long

38 Light bulb unit 40 Butchers' offerings 42 Like tops and tales 43 Speak

extemporaneously 45 Boringly proper 47 Conclude

48 Greek god of love

50 Away from the wind, nautically

51 It's just a number, they say

52 Single, double and triple, on the diamond 55 Shows mercy to

57 Plant bristle

58 Poet's “before”

59 Olla podrida, for one 60 Sheep's cry

61 Where you can find a 17-Across perched on an 11-Down devouring a 25-Down

66 Noah's construction 67 Opening remarks

68 One of the Allman Brothers

69 Envision

70 Valuable item

71 New York's Memorial ___ Kettering Cancer Center

DOWN

1 Droop

2 Zodiac sign before Virgo

3 Course for some immigrants, in brief 4 Historic Kansas fort name

5 Explore caves

6 Like debts

7 “Bingo!”

8 Letter after rho 9 Cuba or Aruba

10 Sign maker's pattern

11 Cactus with an edible fruit

12 Follow as a consequence 13 No longer feral 18 Incendiary bomb material

23 Formal ruling on a point of Islamic law 24 Trojan War epic poem 25 Venomous predator with a vibrating tail 26 They get smashed at parties

27 “Sadly …”

30 Strives for victory

34 And others: Abbr. 36 Sudden forward thrust 37 World's longest continental mountain range

39 Lose stamina 41 Afternoon nap 44 European region that lent its name to a nonconforming lifestyle

46 “Could be …” 49 Ambulance sounds 52 Rum-soaked desserts 53 In the loop

54 Messages that sometimes contain emojis

56 Really, really bad

59 Get off ___-free

62 Fury

63 Philosopher ___-tzu 64 Get ___ on (ace) 65 Four-star officer: Abbr.