THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 They may get into a jam 5 Sub 9 Thin air 14 Electrified bit of sports equipment 15 Caligula’s love 16 Light violet 17 B0B 20 Christensen of “Parenthood” 21 City whose name, appropriately, rhymes with “casino” 22 Ingredient in oldtime cookie recipes 23 Record co. excoriated in a Sex Pistols song 25 Electrical anomaly 27 TB8L 34 Tout’s stock-intrade 35 Fuzz 36 “And thereby hangs ___” 37 Many a numerator 38 & 39 Refill to capacity … or a hint to interpreting the clues at 17-, 27-, 46and 61-Across 41 Nonsense 42 Reed section? 44 Actor Mineo 45 Novelist O’Brien 46 8V8TB 50 Baseball great Buck 51 Start of a familiar run 52 Realize 55 Actor Lugosi 57 “My Fair Lady” lady 61 VMB 64 Moisten, in a way 65 Gathering clouds, e.g. 66 Ticked 67 Saying “Talk to the hand ’cause the face don’t care,” say 68 Unites 69 Book of Mormon prophet DOWN 1 Give up 2 Parodist, e.g. 3 Bank offering, briefly 4 Positions in Quidditch 5 Result of needling someone? 6 Arabian prince 7 Gets promoted 8 Possible hitch to getting hitched 9 One of the 10-Down birds in the world 10 See 9-Down 11 Kind of skirt 12 At any juncture 13 Like many a capt. or gen. 18 Showed 19 Gun measure 24 Prisoner’s assignment: Abbr. 26 Navratilova rival 27 Subjects in quantum mechanics 28 1956 jazz/blues album with an exclamation point 29 “Porgy and Bess,” e.g. 30 Person taken for a fool 31 Afternoon, to Alejandro 32 As a companion 33 Mark down, maybe 38 After that 39 Royal ___ (Detroit suburb) 40 One having a small bite? 43 Heavy drinkers, informally 44 “Gosh, what was I thinking?!” 45 Pen 47 Student woe 48 Avoid the limelight 49 Biblical anagram of 55-Across 52 Falls back 53 Bailiwick 54 Purges 56 Nailed 58 Weights, so to speak 59 Loser, informally 60 Some sources of vitamin C 62 Artery: Abbr. 63 Walk-___