N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Groups of actors in plays 6 Protective wear for lobster eaters 10 Summa cum ___ 15 Outdo 16 Soothing ointment ingredient 17 Neighbor of Hertfordshire

18 Start of a nursery rhyme on a farm

21 Outer part of a crater

22 Feel sorry about

23 Indent key on a keyboard 24 Sport with kicking and boxing, for short

25 Claim without evidence 27 Superlatively kind 29 Bow-tiewearing cub in Jellystone Park

34 “You’re telling me!” 37 Stitch’s human pal, in film 38 Singer Minaj 42 Cookie that’s 29% cream

43 Pass along 45 ___ fides 46 Clock sound

47 Grow fond of 48 Skylineobscuring pollution 49 Bring up in a Q. and A. 50 Spanish for “south” 51 Falsehood 53 Palindromic kitchen brand

54 1963 musical that was Dick Van Dyke’s film debut 59 What dogs do when they’re hungry 61 Former attorney general Holder 62 Photosharing app, colloquially 65 Place for driving lessons (the golf kind) 66 The “sun” in sunny-sideup eggs 67 N.B.A. phenom Jayson 68 Didn’t venture out for dinner 69 Competitive advantage 70 Put into law 71 Actress Thompson of “Sorry to Bother You” 72 Bucks and does 73 Students sit at them

DOWN

1 Fearsome snake

2 Nin of erotica 3 Bursting at the ___ 4 Bathroom fixture

5 Bird that “His eye is on,” in a hymn

6 Term of endearment 7 Sick

8 Snaky scarf 9 Result of a religious schism 10 The “L” of L.G.B.T.Q. 11 Volcanic detritus

12 “I’m at your disposal” 13 Judges to be

14 Person living abroad, informally 19 Modern prefix with correct 20 “Citizen ___” 26 Virtual volume 28 Places infants sleep 30 Having trouble seeing in the morning, perhaps 31 Sound from a piggery 32 Adjective after “Ye” in many a pub’s name 33 Suck-up 34 Littlest bit

35 ___ Kringle (Santa Claus)

36 Pork dish of Southern cuisine 39 “How goes it?,” in Spanish

40 Fort ___, home of the U.S. Bullion Depository 41 “Othello” villain 43 What’s left of a ticket after it’s been used

44 Pinot ___ 50 One-named queen of Tejano music

52 Made revisions to

55 Some spiritual advisers 56 Gradually disappear, as support 57 Nonsense 58 Nonsensical 59 “Tarnation!” 60 Apt rhyme for “evaluate” 63 Hide, as shirttails, with “in” 64 Quantities: Abbr.