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

ACROSS

1 Start of a 14-Across 5 [Just … disappeared!] 9 Part of a necklace 14 Creative nugget

15 One whose charges are sarges

17 ___ system 18 Kay, e.g. 20 Introduction to physics?

21 Squid organ

22 Elle, e.g.

24 “I’ll be there in five minutes,” often 25 Nebraska senator Fischer

27 Pop singer Brickell 28 Dead head? 29 Many a flatscreen 31 Altiplano locale

33 “You said it!,” in slang

34 Dry

Spanish wine

36 Union members

38 Pea, e.g.

42 Knockout

43 Merit

44 Supermodel born Melissa Miller 45 Coming-out phrase

48 Noise at

night

52 Day ___ 53 Greek goddess of the earth

54 Charade

56 Twitter titter 57 Bee, e.g.

60 Blob on a slide

62 Closing bid? 63 Explained in great detail … or what four of this puzzle’s clues are?

65 Eurasia divider

66 Roger ___, secondlongestserving chief justice of the Supreme Court 67 Instead

68 Gives conditionally 69 Minnesota W.N.B.A. team

70 Goes down DOWN 1 Vet-assisting legislation of 1944 2 Heavenly 3 Stank to high heaven

4 Land of Opportunity?

5 Track bet 6 Supporting 7 Largest employer in metro Detroit

8 Like most parking garages 9 Go after 10 Perplexed 11 “The ___ for 50 enemies is one friend”: Aristotle 12 Practitioner of the dark arts

13 Line of athletic footwear

16 Shake, as one’s tail

19 Uneasy feeling 23 Liturgical reference book

26 Cabo’s peninsula 30 Playground wheels

32 Ride hard

33 Arouse 35 Novelist Patrick who wrote “Master and Commander”

37 “Have

I ever steered you wrong?!” 38 Buddy 39 Language in which “Hello, how are you?” is “Salut, ce mai faci?” 40 Mendes of “2 Fast 2 Furious”

41 Rudolph with a parody of Kamala Harris on “S.N.L.”

42 Electric guitar innovator

46 Thick

47 Ladies’ night attendee

49 Enthusiastic flamenco cry 50 Hearty

51 Gives a lift 53 Magnetic induction unit

55 Sepals of a flower, collectively 58 Retained … or detained 59 Playground rhyme starter

61 Some tributes

64 “Dancing With the Stars” judge Goodman