NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Damage beyond repair
6 Talk trash about
10 Cheerleader’s handful
14 Jong who wrote “Fear of Flying”
15 Amy Winehouse, vocally
16 Obama’s stepfather ___ Soetoro
17 Ice cream parlor orders
18 Marx with a curly wig
19 Still competitive
20 Belch fumes, say
22 “Holy smokes!”
23 Genius Bar staffer
24 Ultraliberals, to ultraconservatives
27 Ian McKellen’s role in “X-Men” movies 30 Instagram upload, for short
31 Busy hosp. sites
32 Soviet labor camp
35 Game fish that can breathe air
39 Place to board a bus or train
41 Certain mailing address, for short … or a hint to 14 squares in this puzzle 43 “___ Means I Love You” (1968 top 10 hit by the Delfonics) 44 Underworld boss?
46 Places for channel surfers
48 Long of “Alfie,” 2004 49 Underworld boss
51 Mixed martial arts cage shape
53 One doing a locker room interview 58 ___ Clooney, human rights lawyer 59 Survey
60 Marsupial with a grasping tail 64 Barely ahead
65 Bird in Egyptian hieroglyphics
67 It may be at the end of one’s rope 68 Fizzling fireworks
69 Explorer Hernando de ___
70 Atlas close-up
71 Goddess with cow’s horns 72 Merino mothers
73 Pre-1917 autocrats
DOWN
1 Something to keep in a band? 2 Taken in tablet form, say 3 Work with a plow
4 Do something about
5 End of a relay race
6 Scroogian exclamation 7 Alternative to Dollar or Budget 8 Leave in financial difficulty
9 Dr. Seuss book that introduces phonics
10 Like cartoons on the editorial page
11 Claude who painted water lilies 12 Coppers
13 Clothes closet pests
21 “Dig in!”
25 Hershey’s caramel candies 26 Take a load off
27 Rx items
28 Geometry calculation 29 Woman’s erogenous zone 33 Blood-typing letters
34 Like a lot 36 Summoned, as a butler 37 Salk vaccine target 38 Tandoor-baked bread
40 Like boorish behavior 42 Craft knife brand 45 “Street Dreams” rapper 47 “Hurry up!”
50 Relative of a dolphin 52 Firebugs’ felonies
53 Mecca native 54 Self-important, as an ass 55 “Amazing” magician 56 Nudge rudely
57 Always saying “please,” say 61 Baseball’s Slammin’ Sammy 62 ___-friendly
63 “Miracle” team of 1969
66 Call to the Coast Guard