N.Y. T I MES C RO S S WORD

ACROSS

1 Cracked a bit

5 Gadget shaped like its first letter

10 Minor dustup

14 Pixar film that premiered in Mexico 15 Conference group 16 Keepeth 17 Fried Hanukkah treat

19 Not bamboozled by

20 Watch brand featured in James Bond films

21 “Do or die” time

22 The one over here

23 Parapsychology research subj.

25 Apollo command module, for one

27 Thunder, but not Lightning 31 One doing menial work 32 100%

33 One adorns the Statue of Liberty 36 Rama and Krishna, e.g. 38 Home of Whitman College

43 “See ya!”

44 What chickenpox can cause 45 Before time 46 “Butt out!,”

briefly

48 Theater : usher :: restaurant : ___

51 Fruity loaf with a moist texture 55 Tridentshaped letter 56 Soprano’s co-star? 57 Synthetic 59 Bank security option?

63 Got even with

64 Recover … or what 17-, 25-, 38- and 51-Across do?

66 French 101 verb

67 Zany action 68 Natural sunburn soother 69 Meh

70 Bumps into

71 Tear up

DOWN

1

2

AA

“What a ___!”

3 Berry from Brazil 4 Zoom

5 H&R Block worker, for short

6 Org. in “Die Hard”

7 Core of an alkaline battery

8 U, V or W, on the periodic table 9 Exaggerate for effect 10 Made like a shark?

11 One seeking change 12 Unfinished story?

13 The ones over there

18 Facial feature missing from many emojis

24 Big ___, nickname for slugger David Ortiz 26 Sonic the Hedgehog creator 27 Photographer Goldin

28 Group of voters 29 Devices that work by comparing air pressures 30 Mineralogical eponym

34 Key used to get out, not in

35 Polite term of address 37 Action under a File menu 39 Sporting event profiled in the 2014 documentary “Queens & Cowboys” 40 Gaming novice, slangily

41 Finish, with

“up”

42 Get unionized? 47 Former pro wrestling star ___ Bigelow

49 Place to be marooned 50 Accessory clipped to a dress shirt

51 Some answers on history exams 52 Colleague of Ginsburg and Roberts 53 0% of the population 54 Not quite right?

58 Work with needles

60 Glen

61 Monopoly subj. 62 Scraped (out)

65 Keeps posted, in a way