THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Georgetown athlete 5 Path left behind by a mower

10 Item on a Native American moccasin 14 Genesis garden 15 Sign after Virgo 16 First word in a fairy tale

17 Service organization with a wheel logo

19 10: 1 or 3: 2 at a racetrack

20 Get up

21 Prison unit

23 Where Siberia is 25 Connecticut Ivy 26 Wowed

29 Bird of prey’s claw 33 Domicile with wheels 38 Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were ___” 39 No room at the ___ 40 Praising

42 London's Old ___ 43 Something a strawberry has on the outside

45 Wiseass

47 Neighbor of Jordan 49 Cleans, as a chalkboard

50 Christmas trees 53 Place where a mother might sing

“Rock- a- Bye Baby” 54 Action taken by a company in distress

58 Breadth

62 Hawaiian feast

63 They bring music to one’s ears … or a hint to 17-, 21-, 33-, 45- and 54Across

65 Big vases

66 Rage

67 Surmounting

68 “Let’s ___ a Deal” 69 Always telling people what to do

70 Broadway award

DOWN

1 Zeus’ wife 2 Smell

3 Dubious sighting in the Himalayas

4 Prehistoric Southwest culture

5 Crafty

6 Pagan religious practice

7 Qualified

8 Yours ___ ( letter signoff)

9 “Se ___ español” 10 Kind of logic in which all values are either true or false 11 Prefix with - plasm 12 “Back in Black” rock band

13 Place for a laptop other than a lap

18 Flip, as a property 22 Diner sandwich, for short

24 Notions

26 Not quite right

27 $, and £

28 Li’l ___ of the funnies 30 Amours

31 In reserve

32 Long, narrow parts of bottles

34 Good engine sound 35 ___ Mae ( Whoopi’s role in “Ghost”) 36 Onetime Russian space station

37 Opposite of exit 41 Obtrusively bright showy

44 Not concentrated, as light

46 Researcher’s wear

48 Televise

51 Program for addicts

52 “___ evil …”

53 Gives up, as territory 54 Juicy fruit with a pit 55 Mystique

56 Tug sharply

57 Veers the other way 59 Word after lock or glom

60 Unpaid intern, jocularly 61 Catch sight of 64 Not mind one’s own business