NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Carne ___ (taco option)
6 Ebbed
11 B’way’s “___ Miz” 14 See 4-Down
15 Backspace through, say
16 Type
17 Refusing to understand
19 Org. enforcing RICO laws
20 Tack on
21 Like Prince William vis-à-vis Prince Harry
22 Beg
24 Language from which “bandana” comes
25 Strip sails and ropes from
27 Put in a movie role
30 Org. supporting
mom-and-pop stores
32 Targets of cleanses
35 Bothered a lot
37 When a football might be hiked
39 Through
40 1989 Spike Lee title offering good, if vague, advice
43 Runner’s midsection?
44 Much-requested airplane seat
45 Actress Sohn of “The Wire”
46 Samovar
48 One of football’s Mannings
50 Jennifer who wrote “A Visit From the Goon Squad”
51 Fort ___, N.C.
53 Aliases, informally
55 Derby cocktail
57 Change
59 ___ page (help source)
62 Actress de Armas
63 One of a résumé pair?
66 To wit: Abbr.
67 Motorola phones
68 Spanish 101 verb
69 Bit of firefighting equipment
70 Romeo and Juliet had one
71 Cockpit array
DOWN
1 Actress Jessica 2 Germ 3 Surrounded by
4 With 14-Across, longtime CNN host
5 Rile up
6 Co-founder of the NAACP and author of “The Souls of Black Folk”
7 Works in the Galleria degli Uffizi
8 Island nation that’s the world’s smallest republic
9 Certain curve
10 Strong connection, as to one’s land
11 Animating
12 Actor Idris with an OBE
13 Lose traction
18 Alero or Aurora, informally
23 Year in the reign of Nero
24 Six-sided state
26 Abbr. on a wrapper
27 Air Force Academy student
28 Make amends (for)
29 Fires up?
31 Relationship of the circled letters to the apt words they connect to in this puzzle
33 “American ___ Warrior”
34 Scientist who said “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark”
36 Rend
38 What’s new?
41 Part of a wedding ceremony
42 Digs up, in a way
47 Suffix with architect
49 Store with a one-way route through its cavernous space
52 Like many bridal veils
54 Like paths of missiles
55 Language that may be used in 56-Down
56 See 55-Down
58 Much mail: Abbr.
59 Cheese in a Greek salad
60 Seriously uptight
61 Periods in the NBA: Abbr.
64 It might be jacked up
65 Forensic abbr.