NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Three-letter sandwich

4 Ballroom dance from Cuba

9 Put up with

14 Period in history

15 In the city

16 Front and back halves of a golf course, often

17 Stick connected to a reel

18 Article of headwear for an explosives engineer?

20 Words before an expiration date

22 Appear to be

23 Stashed away

24 Poem with a dedicatee

26 Where tapas are enjoyed

28 Install, as a light bulb

32 Breadth

35 Article of neckwear for the Stooges?

37 Comedian Issa ___

38 Set-asides for old age, for short

39 “Today” rival, in brief

40 Artist Chagall or N.B.A. player Gasol

41 Dispenser candy

42 Wrist accessory for a celebrity magazine editor?

46 Had a video call with

48 Funeral vehicles

49 “Let me give you a ride!”

51 ___ Speed Wagon (old vehicle)

52 “Help us!,” at sea

53 Frog and ___ (friends in a children’s book series)

56 Halo sporter

60 Waist accessory for a Russian cook?

63 Beam of sunlight

64 Made less difficult

65 Not go together fashionwise

66 Dog’s sound

67 Put vinaigrette on, perhaps

68 Groups of bison

69 Three-letter sandwich

DOWN

1 Lima’s home 2 Frat dudes

3 Stone prized in China

4 Actress in “Do the Right Thing” and the “Roots” miniseries

5 Address containing “www”

6 Execs’ degrees, often

7 First, second or third

8 Pays for a hand

9 Peebles in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame

10 Chart-topper

11 Burn to a crisp

12 Having a battery that’s out of juice

13 Psychic’s purported ability, for short

19 Architect of the Louvre Pyramid

21 Unfun sorts

25 “Yucky!”

27 Guitar, in slang

28 Ogre with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

29 Noted Lakota leader

30 “I hate the Moor” speaker, in Shakespeare

31 Naiad or dryad

33 Drug bust officers

34 PC fixer

35 Rewards for waiting?

36 “A ___ of Two Cities”

40 Perry who lost only one case in his career

42 Vivacity

43 Wharton or Piaf

44 Musical ability

45 Christmas door decorations

47 Groups in westerns

50 V-shaped cut

52 Fly high

54 Up to the task

55 ___ John

57 Seize

58 Grey’s title, in the tea aisle

59 Uber competitor

60 Making it is a chore

61 Contents of jewel cases

62 Trippy drug