THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Something needed to play the game depicted in this puzzle

7 Starts the game depicted in this puzzle

13 Suzuki with his first name on his jersey

14 Publisher of People

15 Supporters of broken arms

16 Kim of “L.A. Confidential”

17 Avoid a beanball, maybe

18 Dishwasher need

20 Tram load

21 Went off, as an alarm

24 Boast

25 Foot, in anatomy

28 Meat in a classic Monty Python skit

29 Under the weather

31 Posttriathlon woes

33 Output from futuristic weaponry

38 Wacko

39 Antenna, e.g.

41 Not stressed

43 Toy on a string

44 Beltway insider

45 Ed with seven Emmys

46 Rapper with a line of Fila sneakers

47 Unless, in law

50 Grokked

51 Slow-witted sort

54 President who was imprisoned for

27 years 57 Sch. founded by Thomas Jefferson

58 “Star Wars” princess

59 Ice cream bar brand

63 More skilled in

67 One atop the standings

69 Facetious subject of many articles in The Onion

70 Xenophobes’ fear

71 Call after the

72-Across crosses the

16Down seven times and lands here

72

Something needed to play the game depicted in this puzzle … or a hint to the six shaded answers

DOWN

1 Providence art inst.

2 Free speech defender, for short

3 In vogue 4 “Lola” band, with “the”

5 Joule fraction 6 Even odds

7 Sibling nickname

8 Defunct U.K. label

9 “Footloose” hero ___ McCormack

10 Partner of vim

11 Start of el año

12 Prison guard, slangily

14 Ankle wrap for an athlete

16 Divider in this puzzle’s game

19 Lead-in to lark or dare

22 1940s spy org.

23 Ate in high style

24 Supreme Court aides

25 Get chummy (with)

26 Low-budget: Prefix

27 Maritime hazard

30 Certain Wall St. takeover

32 San Fernando Valley community

34 Suffix for sugars

35 Gerontology subject

36 San ___ (Bay Area city)

37 Hägar the Horrible’s dog

39 Tsunami cause

40 Cover letter abbr.

42 ‘L’ train overseer

45 Be under the weather

48 Uganda’s Amin

49 1960s underwater habitat

51 Home of the Burj Khalifa

52 For all to see

53 Sees regularly

55 Shepard in space

56 Legendary firefighter Red

60 Took too much, briefly

61 I came: Lat.

62 Gaelic tongue

64 Eastern “way”

65 Avian source of red meat

66 One violating omertà

68 Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas or Sonia Sotomayor, schoolwise