NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gets rid of, so to speak 5 Parties with glowsticks 10 Old-fashioned taste? 13 Menu at un café

15 Amazon’s biz

16 Subj. for some aspiring

bilinguals

17 Clamoring for

“The Bonfire of the Vanities”?

19 They can help you get

out of a rut, for short 20 Business plan

21 One of 20 on

the Titanic

23 TV alien played

by Robin Williams 24 Selling someone on “The Importance of Being Earnest”? 26 Group with lodges 28 Exam with logic

questions, for short 29 “Any other place

besides here?” 34 Genesis creator

37 Curse

38 Kindle, e.g. … or a hint to

this puzzle’s theme? 41 Hair color of about 2% of the world’s population

42 Not fooled by

44 They’re a bit

of a stretch

46 Some jeans features

49 Humorist Bombeck 50 Spot to store “A Confederacy of Dunces”? 54 ___ Zor-el, real name of

Supergirl

58 Battle with clearly

defined sides

59 “Now wait just a

second!”

61 With 14-Down, what

“Fin” might mean 62 Positive review of a

Nancy Drew mystery? 64 “Jingle Bells”

contraction 65 Architect born in

Guangzhou

66 A dance or a dip

67 Narc (on)

68 Six of the first 10 elements on the periodic table

69 Units of poetry

DOWN

1 Philosopher with a

“razor”

2 Crime drama set in the

Midwest

3 Fast-food fixture 4 Rascal

5 Counterpart of “FF” 6 Bikini, e.g.

7 Sound

8 Towering figure of

architecture?

9 Is out

10 Creatures that have the densest fur of any mammal (up to 1 million hairs per square inch)

11 Hayes with three

Grammys and an Oscar 12 “Lady Lazarus” poet

Sylvia

14 See 61-Across 18 Onetime popular blog that covered Manhattan gossip 22 Predisposition

25 R&B’S ___ Brothers 27 Big name

in jeans

29 “___ goes there?” 30 Lay figure?

31 People person,

perhaps

32 Portuguese title with a

tilde

33 Cusps

35 “My word!” 36 Often-skipped parts of

podcasts

39 Coarse

40 Dashboard abbr. 43 “Essential” things 45 Gold insignia of the

armed forces

47 Babe or Wilbur, in film 48 Conceptual framework 50 Aristotle, to Alexander

the Great

51 Tony nominee Milo

52 A host

53 Host

55 Singer of the titular

song in 2012’s “Skyfall” 56 Clear one’s plate, in a

way

57 Bothered terribly 60 Gives the thumbs-up 63 “___ Last Bow” (Sherlock Holmes story)