NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Get in the game?

5 Home of the comics heroes Asterix and Obelix

9 Month with a so-called “hunter's moon”: Abbr.

12 “Let's Make ___”

13 Actor Edward James ___

15 “It's cold in here!”

16 What might be rolled for a strike

18 Put (down)

19 ___ no good (misbehaving)

20 Bud … or bait

21 Slightly off

23 Verse in a poem

25 What a clock might strike

27 [A spider!]

28 ___ Fleming, British naval intelligence officer-turned-writer

30 Is on the same page

31 Dexterous

33 Milky gem

36 Put two and two together, say

37 What might strike during a storm

40 Mermaid's home

42 Place for a fork … or a jackknife?

43 Cry of pain

46 Popular Nissan model

48 “For sure!”

50 Ctrl-___-del

52 Who might go on strike

55 Plush fabric

57 Religious believer of a sort

58 Rod between wheels

60 Site for buying and selling crafts

61 Letters on a Forever stamp

62 What might strike you while solving this puzzle

65 6-3 in tennis, e.g.

66 Place to leave one's shoes, perhaps

67 Disney heroine whose name means “ocean”

68 Firefighter's tool

69 Many a big charity event

70 “Bird by Bird” writer Lamott

DOWN

1 Took home a “furever friend,” say

2 Fresh spin on a familiar concept

3 Prey-catching claw

4 Inventor Whitney

5 Painter Vincent van ___

6 Lady Gaga's “The Fame” or “Artpop”

7 It's not sweet, sour, salty or bitter

8 Response to a funny text (that usually isn't literally true)

9 Beholden (to)

10 Suddenly stopped working, as a computer

11 Secret meetings

12 Mistreat

14 Sort of language generally found in Urban Dictionary

17 Final Four org.

22 Desert illusion

24 Rigatoni relative

26 Surrealist Salvador

29 Manhattan neighborhood containing some of N.Y.U.

32 Thrashes about

34 Org. that provides chaperones for field trips

35 Name on Woody's shoe in “Toy Story”

38 Overcast

39 Wall Street inits. since 1792

40 Like some couples

41 Atone for

44 Mekong Valley resident

45 Wedding guest's partner, say

46 Only mortal Gorgon in Greek myth

47 Recurring theme

49 Penultimate word in a fairy tale

51 Attempting to, casually

53 G.P.A. booster

54 Kick out

56 Divulge

59 Pre-euro currency

63 Christmastime concoction

64 Doctors' org.