N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Drop a line?

5 Verb conjugated suis, es, est, etc. 9 Third-place finisher in 1992 14 Language group of southern Africa 15 Neighbor of Cambodia 16 Jelly option 17 Reduces to bits 18 One competing with Uber 20 Iron alloy that includes a bit of tungsten and chromium 22 People in go-karts 23 Mast

24 Picture from a parlor, informally 25 When repeated, a hip-hop dance

26 Add (up) 28 Volunteer for another tour

31 Not yet out of the running 33 Physics 101 subject 35 Tchotchkes 40 Fountain choices 42 Verbal tussle 43 Response to a computer crash 44 Incompetent figure of old slapstick

47 ___ pony 48 Tennis champ Mandlikova 49 Just gets (by)

51 Pony ___ 52 T.S.A. requests 55 Grammy category 56 Something of little interest, a homeowner hopes 58 Himalayan language 60 Reject romantically … or a hint to the starts of the answers to 18- and 35-Across, phonetically 65 Show interest romantically … or a hint to the ends of the answers to 20- and 44-Across, phonetically 67 Lollipopsucking TV detective 68 Wyatt and Warren of the Old West 69 Suffix with senior

70 Muse of love poetry 71 Something done up in an updo

72 Popular game that needs no equipment 73 Few and far between

DOWN

1 Not get above 60, say

2 Behind bars 3 Like a double black diamond trail 4 Hungarian horseman 5 Fashion magazine with more than 40 international editions 6 Actor Diggs 7 Not just “ha ha”

8 Winter zone in D.C.

9 What a curse might lead to 10 Former attorney general Holder 11 Baltimore N.F.L.’er 12 “Don Giovanni,” e.g.

13 Lacking in detail 14 “Just a sec!,” in a text 19 Chugged or sipped 21 Go the distance? 24 Popular videosharing service 26 Project manager’s assignment 27 Onetime buffalohunting tribe

29 Open, as a purse 30 Part of a church organ 32 Camper’s cover

34 Pulp 36 Wedding reception staple 37 Embarrassing thing to have one’s hand caught in

38 Member of the cabbage family

39 Kiss amorously 41 Like an overcast night

45 Studio sign 46 ___ walk 50 Harry Potter’s Quidditch position 52 Alaska or Hawaii, often 53 ___ flask (thermos) 54 Steeple topper 57 Herbivore’s diet

59 24-Down and others 60 Capt.’s inferiors 61 Legislature V.I.P.

62 Tiny, informally 63 It’s unavoidable 64 Ring result, for short

66 :15 number