N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Means of surveillance, for short 5 Coconspirator with Brutus and Cassius 10 Banter jokingly 14 “I got it! I got it!” 15 What’s standard, with “the” 16 ___ breve 17 Litter noises 18 Bottom coat? 20 Slammer 21 Word before and after “à” 22 Had people over for dinner, say 23 Habitat for a walrus 27 “___ seen worse” 28 Actor Dennis or Randy 29 Sports org. that plays in the winter 30 Co-workers of TV’s Don Draper 32 Spending jags 34 Locale of the anvil and stirrup 36 Cincinnati sluggers 37 Its motto, translated from Latin, is “If you wish for peace, prepare for war” 40 Fill with cargo 43 A.M.A. members 44 Messed with, with “around” 48 Avoid the clutches of 50 Early nuclear org. 52 Esther of “Good Times” 53 TV show set in Westeros, for short 54 Drill bit alloy 57 Untouched, as an artifact 59 Slack-jawed emotion 60 Good name for a girl born on December 24? 61 1963 Bobby Vinton hit … or a hint to both halves of 18-, 23-, 37- and 54-Across 64 Surgeons’ subj. 65 Focusing aid 66 Something to believe in 67 Ballet leap 68 Whence the Three Wise Men, with “the” 69 Defeated by a hair 70 Fired
DOWN
1 Pioneering personal computers 2 “Come on, things aren’t so bad” 3 Limousine 4 Bygone kind of tape 5 Like the numbers 8, 27 and 64 6 How one’s much-loved nephew might be treated 7 Periscope site 8 Low island 9 Leader of Athens? 10 Thriller set around Amity Island 11 Quaint 12 Like LPs and some dresses 13 Coagulates 19 Actress Chaplin of 53-Across 21 YouTube upload 24 Like wedding cakes, typically 25 Posh neighborhood of London or New York 26 Spirit 31 Problem in an old wooden building 33 Guitarist Barrett 35 British rule over India, once 38 Spirited steed 39 Part of a biblical citation 40 Unlike most physicians’ handwriting, stereotypically 41 Home of Anne of Green Gables 42 Old Nissan autos 45 Something that may be used before a blessing 46 Put on a pedestal 47 Struck out 49 Outside: Prefix 51 A dependent one might start with “that” 55 Unit of measure with the same Latin origin as “inch” 56 Jacket material 58 Superlative ending with grass or glass 62 Reprimand to a dog 63 Big galoot 64 Best-selling Steely Dan album