N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sweet tubers 5 Missouri city, informally 10 Suffix with narc14 Precious stone that has been found on Mars (fun fact!) 15 Start of a quip attributed to British comedian Ken Dodd 16 Sensei’s teaching 17 Modern lead-in to call 18 Speleologist 19 Leggy wader 20 Part 2 of the quip 23 Pipe bend 24 BBC ___ 25 Bundle up 27 Pricy wristwatch 29 Letters on a lotion bottle 32 Buffalo hockey player 33 1975 Best Musical Tony winner, with “The” 35 “You betcha!” 37 It’s not free of charge 38 Part 3 of the quip 43 Howe’er 44 School of whales 45 Crackerjack 46 “Baloney!” 49 Y feature 51 Just as planned 55 Potential Emmy nominee 57 Academic address ender 59 She-bear, in Baja 60 Part 4 of the quip 64 Become too sweet after a while, say 65 John with 56 Top 40 singles in the U.S. 66 Overly fussy 67 Thomas Edison’s middle name 68 End of the quip 69 Entwined 70 ___ greens 71 Declared on a stack of Bibles 72 1974 C.I.A. parody

DOWN

1 The New ___ (weekly) 2 Creed of Hollywood 3 Old telephone service provider, informally 4 Sow chow 5 Send to attack 6 River crossed by Westminster Bridge 7 Mud 8 What’s within your range? 9 Otherworldly 10 Algonquian language 11 Locale of many cookiecutter homes 12 1,049-mile race 13 Pot-scrubbing brand 21 Cause of a bee sting’s sting 22 Reply: Abbr. 26 Implement for confident crossword solvers 28 Source of the milk for pecorino Romano cheese 30 Little person 31 Bank charge 34 Quick turn 36 “Harper Valley ___” (1968 hit) 38 Town in two Dr. Seuss books 39 Kind of off-season baseball “league” 40 Identify on Facebook 41 Jamboree attendee 42 QB Roethlisberger 43 Demolition letters 47 Spend the night in 48 The ___ Ridge Boys (country/ gospel quartet) 50 Many an expresident’s book 52 Needing quarters, maybe 53 John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter served in it 54 2018 Super Bowl champs 56 Navigation hazards 58 Al ___ (pasta order) 61 A little dense 62 Other, in Acapulco 63 Hems’ partners 64 Where a truck driver sits