n.Y. times crossword

ACROSS

1 Mattress cover 6 Desert beast 11 “Born in the ___” 14 Deserves 15 Cockamamie 16 Catch cold? 17 Meat entree in Ukraine 19 “Weekend Update” show, for short 20 Carne asada holder 21 Low-fat 22 Practice piece at a conservatory 24 Travel about 26 Back of a boat 28 Meat entree in Austria 33 Have a hunch 34 Pewter component 35 Excellent, informally 36 Pound sound 37 Brand that “nobody doesn’t like” 41 Greek “H” 42 Home to the majority of earthlings 44 ___ Air (affluent neighborhood of Los Angeles) 45 Bold type 47 Meat entree in New Zealand 51 Emmy winner Christine 52 Christmas carol 53 Freshwater polyp 55 Jam ingredient? 57 Alan who wrote the book “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?” 61 Sound elicited by a punch in the gut 62 Meat entree in the United Kingdom 65 Olive of cartoons 66 Disney World park

67 Be in accord 68 Small dog 69 Pro in taking dictation 70 Landowners’ papers

DOWN

1 Religious offshoot 2 “That’s funny!” 3 California politico Garcetti 4 Concert bonuses 5 Sound of disapproval 6 The movie industry 7 “My Way” lyricist Paul 8 Thing attached to a sloop’s boom 9 Direction from Mo. to Me. 10 River embankments 11 Person not getting credit for a brave act 12 Hourglass contents 13 Up to the task 18 Panache 23 Mouse catcher 25 Easiest numbers to dial on a rotary phone 27 Adjust the pitch of 28 Chapter’s counterpart 29 Pop-up that results in the batter being called out even if the ball isn’t caught 30 Public bathroom compartment 31 No longer on the plate 32 Symbol on the Texas state flag 33 Bygone Swedish car 38 Assist in a crime 39 Trust 40 Cutting-___ (pioneering) 43 From a distance 46 Like a prison fugitive 48 Moby Dick and others 49 Counting everything 50 Separator of a.m. and p.m. 53 Owl’s sound 54 Dimwit 56 Thick Japanese noodle 58 Traditional knowledge 59 Ran out of juice

60 Pub pints 63 Choose, with “for” 64 Reprimand to a dog