N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 9-to-5 activity 5 In heaven, say 10 Like a Saturday crossword 14 Person in a boardroom, informally 15 It’s in the details, they say 16 Arthur who wrote “Days of Grace”

17 Meat substitute 18 Cards in Monopoly 19 Put the kibosh on 20 French conductor Boulez 22 Upscale hotel facility 23 Electrical unit 26 “___ relax” (“Breathe”) 27 Web-footed diver

28 Things that may be broken when moving? 30 Pic picked in a parlor 32 Gare de l’___, Paris railway station 33 Senegal’s capital 34 Where the sheep is in “Little Boy Blue” 37 One totally unlike another … or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has? 41 Inscribed stone markers 42 Having no toppings, as a pizza 44 Singer/ songwriter DiFranco 47 Rocks, in drinks 48 Pooh’s morose friend 49 Complete stranger, slangily 51 Gregor ___, Kafka character who transforms in “The Metamorphosis” 54 Put in stitches 55 Unpleasant encounter 56 Madison Square Garden team 58 “Really?” 59 Bird whose beak inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution 60 Fend (off) 64 Flying formations 65 Accustom to difficulty 66 Taiwanese electronics giant 67 Like a Monday crossword 68 In hell, say 69 Off-hours activity

DOWN

1 Rainy 2 Big name in kitchen utensils 3 Arena arbiter, informally 4 Singleserving coffee pod 5 Venomous snakes with zigzag patterns on their backs 6 Drunken, in a way 7 Not hidden 8 Obsolescent home movie format 9 They loop the Loop 10 Rips into 11 Shrewd 12 Some French wines 13 Take off, as a plane 21 Method of successive improvement 22 In some sense 23 Like the year you ring out on December 31 24 In a ___ of trouble 25 Speedy shark 29 Pizza joint in “Do the Right Thing” 31 Hubbub 34 Fancy notebook brand

35 Fuel economy org. 36 Foxlike 38 Critic’s pick, for short 39 Tourist city in New Mexico’s high desert 40 Dublin’s land 43 Like the year you ring in on January 1 44 Land, as a plane 45 Seasickness, e.g. 46 Some belly buttons 48 Forgo 50 Bubbleheaded 52 Cancel 53 Prefix with aggression 57 Exchange 59 Little lie 61 Kind of tear for an athlete 62 Stephen of “V for Vendetta” 63 Not rainy