NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Eliza Doolittle’s creator

5 Many an Amazon “worker”

10 Rudely ignore

14 Cement truck attachment

15 How hermits live

16 Seep

17 Topic for one of the Dalai Lama’s “Little Book” series

19 “Really?”

20 “You think the blanket needs messing up?”

22 Keyed (in)

23 Suffix with Japan or Sudan

24 Part of a baseball uniform

27 Alter, as a site layout

31 Squirrel away

33 One squat or one crunch

36 Guideline for testing watermelon ripeness?

39 Bruins’ home

41 Barrage in battle

42 Baseball’s Slaughter

43 Whence slouches?

46 Prefix with county or borough

47 Actress Mallet of “Goldfinger”

48 Neuter

50 Brokerage sale: Abbr.

51 Schlep

54 Iraq’s main port 58 Title of a trash collector’s memoir? 63 Omnia vincit ___ 65 Go with the tried and true, say

66 “Hi and Lois” pooch 67 One to show respect to 68 Site of an early fall 69 Certain basketball defense 70 Center of a luau 71 Blood fluids

DOWN

1 Something a risk-taking investor might lose 2 Sweetie 3 No sweat 4 Worker with a hoe 5 Agog 6 Imperial product 7 Animal with tusks 8 As expected 9 Swarms 10 What tillers till 11 Population determination 12 Israeli-made weapon 13 Wager 18 Winona of film 21 Termite or gnat 25 Attire for a joust 26 “Say ___, please” (old ad slogan) 28 Ponder 29 Apple application that’s now banned 30 Big name in windows 32 “What ___?!” 33 Corrodes, as iron 34 Razzle-dazzle 35 Set on the table, as payment 37 Running track, typically 38 Typesetter’s choice 40 Bon ___ (cleaner) 44 Açaí tree, e.g. 45 Premiere 49 Pharaoh honored near Aswan 52 ___ Egypt (Aswan Dam locale) 53 California wine giant 55 One in a black suit 56 Direct attention (to) 57 Amphitheater 59 Tell to “Act now!,” e.g. 60 Nothin’ 61 Batik supplies 62 Juicy gossip 63 Tool with a tapering blade 64 Chairman with a Little Red Book