N.Y. 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 Bubblefilled 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