NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tacks on 5 Not include 9 Had fingers crossed 14 Front of a freighter 15 Duffer’s warning

16 + end on an electrolytic cell 17 Birdbath organism 18 Bushy dos 19 Vegetation along a British golf course 20 Yard displays at election time 23 Color tone 24 Org. for the Big East, Big South and Big 12 25 Family tree members 28 Geologist’s division 29 Mongol Empire founder 31 “Gymnopédies” composer Erik 33 Geologist’s division 34 Claudius’s successor 35 Small amount 38 ___-Ball 40 Yea or nay 43 Goat’s bleat 45 Stops playing 49 “Nope, guess again” 53 Cracklin’ ___ Bran 54 Susan who wrote “In America” 55 U.S. city whose name looks oxymoronic 56 Lead-in to an alias 57 Nonactive member of a firm … or what G, H and W each have in 20-, 29- and 49-Across? 60 Sharp increase 62 Burnett of CNN

63 It’ll give you a clear picture 64 K. T. of country music 65 Offer mortgages 66 “That makes sense” 67 Trattoria course 68 Staying power, informally 69 George Foreman Jr., George Foreman III, George Foreman IV, etc.

DOWN

1 Army fliers since 1984 2 Advice-giver on SiriusXM 3 Serving in Asia that’s taboo in the West 4 Exchange 5 Setting for “Dilbert” 6 New York’s ___ Library 7 Period in Europe starting around 1100 B.C.

8 “___ of the D’Urbervilles” 9 Sheep dish popular in Scotland 10 Preparing to propose, by tradition 11 Boxster maker 12 Mag. staffers 13 Actor Billy ___ Williams 21 Ire 22 Unerasably, say 26 Body part that some people wiggle 27 ___ Balls (snack food) 30 Sounds from the Jolly Green Giant

32 Aid in producing a suspect’s picture 36 Picture 37 Test ___ (treaty subject) 39 Blunder 40 Bugs on the road? 41 Medalla de ___ (firstplace award in Mexico) 42 Painful things to have removed 44 Source of wood for baseball bats 46 Scoundrel 47 Break during rehearsal, say 48 Doesn’t eat for a long while 50 Main ore of lead 51 Erasing, as a hard drive 52 African antelopes 58 “Little” Dickens girl 59 “___ is the life!” 60 Soak up 61 Smokey Bear was in an early one, for short