NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Perennial campaign issue 5 Airplane wing feature

9 Cool, giant sun

14 Taken by mouth

15 Sweat spot

16 Remote control button 17 Grinder

18 Totally focused

19 Brooding worry

20 Big part of the New World

23 It’s pitched with a pitchfork 24 Present oneself falsely

28 Greek island in the Aegean Sea

31 Common supply for a party 33 One cause for an R rating 34 Wagering venue, briefly

35 Like some missiles 38 Onetime Volvo competitor 39 Compromise … or a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s shaded squares

43 Bad temper

44 Flashy 1940s men’s attire 45 Lead-in to bred or behaved 46 Channel for “Conan” 49 ___-Caps (theater candy) 50 Faux ___

51 Seaside cookout 54 Fast-food chain with a goateed spokesman

56 Flashing light phenomenon 61 Ridiculous

64 Pink

65 Humdinger

66 Arms and legs

67 “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,” e.g. 68 10-Down resident

69 On the nose

70 What’s happening and when, informally

71 Recorded message prompt DOWN

1 Donald ___ Trump

2 ___ Blizzard (Dairy Queen offering) 3 Roseanne of “Roseanne”

4 Animal that hangs upside down in trees 5 Graffiti artist’s tool

6 Rich soil

7 Big name in beauty products

8 Game craze of the late 1980s and ’90s 9 Falcon rocket launcher

10 Yemen’s capital

11 Pull

12 Nativity scene figure

13 Emeritus: Abbr.

21 Country to which Frederick Douglass was a U.S. ambassador

22 Natalie Cole’s “___ Got Love on My Mind”

25 Pack, as a car for travel

26 Napoli’s nation

27 Field where Jackie Robinson played 28 Like the meter in sonnets

29 Ed of “Modern Family”

30 Popular Belgian beer, for short 32 Fictional tree creature

36 Carmel finish?

37 Letters on an AM dial

38 1960s radical grp.

40 Canon model

41 Tinkered (with)

42 “Knock ___!”

46 Intradermal diagnostic, for short 47 Many a lounge

48 Some tennis wear

52 “___ Live” (daytime news program) 53 Kindle material

55 B equivalent

57 Salinger dedicatee

58 Tip of France?

59 Family

60 Idiot box

61 ___-de-France

62 Put the kibosh on

63 Operator’s org.?