NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Buds that are very close 5 “For those who think

young” sloganeer, once 10 Drainage collector 14 Cookie that has been deemed kosher since 1997

15 Walled city of Spain 16 Sports event in which athletes try to avoid being touched 17 Porky’s significant other 19 Gillette razor handle 20 Make wise through

experience

21 See 53-Across 23 Exceedingly

26 Letters at a bar

27 Signal that a reply is coming in a messaging app

30 Accept responsibility for

31 Terrific

34 Diatribe trigger 35 Official proceedings

37 Attempt to block 38 Original ___

39 Make art like 53-/21-Across (as suggested by this puzzle’s circled letters?) 41 Suffix with quartz

42 Pat who wrote “The Prince of Tides” and “The Great Santini” 44 Male hedgehog 45 Homer’s neighbor on

“The Simpsons” 46 Source of some rings 47 Industry that

encourages strikes? 48 Modest reply to a

compliment

49 Biol. or chem. 50 Oklahoma’s state tree 53 With 21-Across, artist known to 39-Across pigments back and forth onto canvases 56 Melodic passage 60 Removal from danger,

informally

61 ___ station, Central

London railway terminal 64 Long ride?

65 Suffered a wipeout 66 Leaning to the right:

Abbr.

67 Org. for Lt. Columbo 68 Jetés, e.g.

69 One leaning to the right

DOWN

1 Conks 2 Unoccupied 3 Cheese in

a spanakopita 4 Boozehounds 5 Noted colonial

pamphleteer 6 Señora Perón

7 Small hard seed 8 Moccasin, e.g. 9 False friend in

Shakespeare 10 Babe in the Arctic

11 Somewhat 12 Chicago exchange, in

brief

13 Like times that are the

most expensive 18 Veterans Day mo. 22 Daffy Duck, notably 24 Indian flatbread 25 Low-ranking sailor 27 What you need some

wiggle room to do? 28 Betelgeuse’s

constellation

29 Where you might find

love away from home? 32 Fragrant compound 33 Like an oboe’s sound

35 Dreamboat of a guy 36 Weep

37 Greeting in Rio

40 “Be ___” (motto for

Wikipedia contributors) 43 Pacific food fish

47 Highly decorated 48 “That’s cool, daddy-o!” 51 Taunts so as to get a

reaction

52 Samovar

53 Come together 54 Running shoe brand 55 Gem that’s a woman’s

name

57 Palindromic guy’s

name

58 Succeed and then

some

59 “Recycle ___” (sign on a

bin)

62 Narc’s org.

63 Tango flourish