N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Polio vaccine developer Salk

6 The “S” of S.U.V. 11 Glasgow gal 15 Get in touch with

16 Mistake 17 From the start 18 Connected set of rooms in a hotel 19 Frank ___, Al Capone henchman 20 “Veni, ___, vici”

21 International competition for countries that boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics [Texas] 24 “Quite true” 25 Edmonton’s hockey team 26 Theme of

“To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Do the Right Thing”

29 Jazzy Fitzgerald

30 Sphere 31 45 1/2-carat gem at the National Museum of Natural History [Rhode Island]

38 Time in Boston when it’s midnight in Austin 41 Impose, as a tax 42 Shopping binge

43 QB’s downfield throw [Wisconsin] 46 Michael of “S.N.L.” 47 ___-Ball (carnival attraction) 48 Corsage flower

51 Growth on a tree

54 Place for tugboats 57 Companies that have big market shares [Utah] 61 Drug cop 62 Helped out

63 Preliminary races

65 Furry critter in “Return of the Jedi”

66 Vehicle with 18 tyres, maybe

67 Sleep problem

68 Pols with a donkey party logo

69 & 70 What the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue DOWN

1 Upper-class members: Abbr.

2 “Why do the French have only one egg for breakfast? Because one egg is an ___” (old joke) 3 Brand to use “if you dare wear short shorts”

4 When

Hamlet gives his “To be, or not to be” soliloquy

5 500 things in a ream 6 Transmits 7 Strait-laced person

8 Big name in lawn care 9 Indian flatbread 10 North African city in the lyrics to the “Marines’ Hymn”

11 Blobby light popular in the 1960s-’70s 12 Japanese cartoon style 13 Meal with the Four Questions

14 ___ Army knife

22 “Mrs. Frisby and the

Rats of ___” (Robert C. O’Brien children’s book)

23 Large lizards of the Southwest 26 Upper part of the mouth 27 Florence’s river

28 Person who might say “10-4, good buddy” 29 “Grand” brand of ice cream

32 Ye ___

Shoppe 33 Liveliness 34 Longoria of “Desperate Housewives” 35 Theater sect. near the stage

36 Fruity soda brand

37 Homeowner’s document 39 Phrase akin to “Darn it all!”

40 Manufactures 44 Cars for vacationers 45 Japanese noodles 49 Hillary ___ Clinton 50 Sleazeball 51 Queued (up) 52 Really impressed 53 PC spinner 54 Freshwater polyp

55 Paying attention 56 Change from artificial blond back to brunet, say

58 Prison uprising 59 Rave’s partner 60 “Leave as is,” to a proofreader 64 ___ Paulo, Brazil