N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Takes out

5 Deckhand

9 Covertly drops a line to

13 Make faces, perhaps

14 Window’s counterpart

16 ___-chic (hippieinfluenced style)

17 Red root

19 Groan-inducing dice roll

20 Note below F, perhaps?

21 Judean king

23 Undefined degree

24 Certain red wine, to connoisseurs

26 Slip up

28 Kind of scenario

31 Comfort

32 Give a good beatin’

33 Ornamental pond fish

35 One of many in Jesus’ crown

37 Line of clothing

38 Diaper

41 Org. whose members meet in an alley

42 Live in a studio

44 “___: Cyber” (2010s TV spinoff)

45 Symbol of England

46 Altogether

49 Long-handled weapon

51 Went on

53 Fortune

54 It “lives from constraints and dies from freedom,” per Leonardo da Vinci

55 Went after

57 Tennis star Naomi

61 “I dare you!”

63 Name tag

65 Blood moon, to some

66 Slightly brown

67 Old Dodge

68 Cause of class struggle?

69 Video file extension

70 Handful of golfers?

DOWN

1 Figures at a racetrack

2 Let go

3 Rattle

4 Stretchy headwear

5 ___ João de Meriti, Brazil

6 Employed by

7 They may be packed for a trip in the mountains

8 Says quickly without thinking

9 ___ World Service

10 Thanksgiving centerpiece

11 One talking on and on and on

12 They outrank frosh

15 Affordable, in company names

18 It may be well done

22 “Keep Climbing” sloganeer

25 Need for a triathlon

27 –

28 “Well, I guess if everyone else is …”

29 History and literature, e.g.

30 Problem for a mariner

32 “Am I supposed to know this person?”

34 Close of business?

36 Old ___, “Game of Thrones” caretaker

38 Rubbish

39 Subj. of some thought experiments

40 Six-stringed instrument

43 ___ Tech, notable bankruptcy of 2016

45 “I’d rather we skip it”

47 Strata

48 Yoked pair 50 Pillage

51 Gal in “Wonder Woman”

52 Gobble

56 Place for un béret

58 “Je t’___” (French for “I love you”)

59 Xanadu resident

60 Without change

62 It may be placed in mines

64 Coatroom item