THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Delights 5 James or Luther of R& B 11 Liberal arts dept.

14 Further

15 Orator who declared “Laws are silent in times of war” 16 Drink mentioned in the chorus of “American Pie”

17 Words spoken just before a TV commercial

19 I. R. S. form 5498 subj. 20 Powerful bloodline?

21 “The Black Tulip” author 23 Polo, for one

26 Words of retraction

29 Bad- weather gear

31 Transfer

32 Hebrides isle

33 Pie flavor

36 Credit Suisse rival

39 Comment upon making a fateful decision

42 Attention

43 Swim meet event

44 Brand with “Thick & Fluffy” products

45 Heaven

47 Proceed smoothly

49 “Uh- oh, here they are again” 53 Second- generation Japanese-American

54 Pro and Mini purchases

55 Per person

57 Man’s name that’s three consecutive letters of the alphabet 58 Angry words said after “Get out of here!”

64 Munchkin

65 Battle of ___ ( 1797 Napoleon victory)

66 State

67 Person using binoculars, maybe

68 Told tales

69 Able to move nicely

DOWN

1 Gab

2 Shout accented on the second syllable

3 Fashion inits.

4 Vehicle that gets cell service? 5 One doing a mob hit 6 Mob boss Frank 7 I. M.' ing option 8 Agcy. issuance 9 NPR journalist Shapiro 10 He adopted Esther in the Book of Esther

11 Sex drive and others

12 Variety of dark- skinned grape 13 Winemaking need 18 This and that 22 Actress Hagen 23 Hurt maliciously 24 Kerfuffle 25 What kindness and honesty reveal 27 Saw 28 Musician with the 1987 instrumental hit “Songbird” 30 Stew ( over) 34 “Whereupon …” 35 Cambodia's Lon ___ 37 General Mills corn snack bit 38 Absolut rival, informally

40 Go- between 41 Bases of TED talks

46 Acid

48 Go ___ great length 49 Essences

50 “Gimme a high- five!”

51 Wore

52 More than 1% or 2%

56 Tennyson’s “Geraint and ___"” 59 Long in Hollywood

60 Binge- watching aid, in brief 61 There's one for every season, for short

62 Poetic contraction

63 Shout