NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Get too scared, with “out”

5 Cutting class?

9 Like a know-it-all

14 Witching ___

15 Word that might accompany an air kiss

16 Garden pest

17 Memo header

18 Sciences’ partner

19 Reacts to a blow

20 Grand preparations? 23 Comment after a sneeze

24 Sushi bar offering

25 Letter before omega

27 Things that go bump in the night 32 Girded

35 Disturb

36 Sea ___

37 Mouth, slangily

39 “___ never!”

41 Genus that includes geniuses 42 Shady areas

44 It’s right on the map 46 Vietnamese festival

47 Iconic logo since 1962

50 Bard’s “before”

51 Granola morsel

52 Mountain shelter

56 Gestured rudely … or what this puzzle’s circles have done?

61 “___ yourself!”

62 Home to the Triple Crown of Surfing 63 Ones who’ve called it quits 64 Neighbor of Saudi Arabia 65 Company, e.g. 66 Communion, e.g.

67 7 7 7, in France

68 Circus site

69 Circus sight

DOWN

1 Congressional leaders

2 Ancient Anatolian region

3 Sistine Chapel feature

4 Union agreement, informally?

5 Disney villain voiced by Jeremy Irons 6 Take on

7 Curse

8 Big phony

9 Verizon or AT&T

10 Unfolds, in poetry

11 Unsporting comment

12 Twiddles one’s thumbs

13 Golf hole measure: Abbr.

21 Nose wrinkler

22 Distress

26 “Love ___ a victory march” (“Hallelujah” lyric)

28 Action that could cause a QB’s fumble 29 Part of many a garbage bag 30 “Oklahoma!” aunt

31 I, in Innsbruck

32 Put on

33 Scoring 100

34 Piece of office décor

38 Pea’s place

40 Body of eau

43 Investigates, as a cold case

45 Prefix meaning “far away”

48 Went to a restaurant

49 Gets serious, with “up”

53 The South

54 TV host Van Susteren

55 Ford flop

57 One of the first musicians to have an “explicit content” sticker on an album 58 Rosencrantz or Guildenstern 59 Flimsy

60 Jabba, for one, in “Star Wars” 61 Fly-___