NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Praise

8 Have a bug, say

11 Boathouse item

14 Weakness

15 Cellular carrier?

16 Move along

17 Self-deprecatingly titled instructional book series

18 He shared a Nobel Prize with de Klerk 20 Used a scope

22 Got off the bottle

23 “White Flag” singer, 2003 26 Golfer’s goof

28 Actress Cheryl or Diane 29 Financial mogul Carl

31 To’s partner

32 Griminess

33 Brilliance

35 Piece of cake?

37 German “the” 38 Easy-to-park vehicles … or what can be found four times in this puzzle

41 It can be hard to process

43 Big loss, figuratively

44 Warren Buffett, notably

47 Some corporate jets

49 It ends with “zyzzyva,” in brief 51 Certain ticket category

52 “… if you ___!”

53 Tolkien dragon

55 Calamine target

56 European nation since 1993 58 Praise

60 Vituperative sorts

62 Reins cats and dogs?

66 Took first

67 Gym unit

68 Support, as a cause

69 Qantas hub, on tickets

70 Dolt

71 “Casey at the Bat” autobiographer

DOWN

1 Meet the expense of

2 Word on a magnum

3 2015 N.F.L. M.V.P. Newton

4 City in which “Glee” is set

5 Listed “others”

6 Gossip column fodder

7 Walt Whitman’s “Song of ___” 8 The Adriatic vis-à-vis the Mediterranean 9 Gobsmacked

10 Bowling reservation

11 Easily decided

12 Longtime TV exec Roone 13 Access to a treehouse, maybe 19 “Lobster Telephone” artist 21 Bargain-priced 23 Archaeological site

24 Some bling

25 Evade, as a sensitive topic

27 San Francisco’s ___ Tower 30 Puts to sleep, say 32 Histrionics

34 Facial spot

36 Start to terrorism or tourism 39 Tiny power source

40 Hilton alternative 41 Proverbs

42 Pinocchio, by the film’s conclusion 45 Liquor: Abbr.

46 Last in a math series 48 Intensifies, with “up” 50 Airport whose main terminal was designed by Eero Saarinen 53 Winter vacation destination 54 Most over the top 57 Bubble-filled Nestlé chocolate bar 59 Tailor’s aid

61 50 is a very high one, in brief 63 Warm greeting

64 Common linguistic suffix 65 Pommes frites seasoning