NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Highland garment outlawed by the Dis-clothing Act of 1746

5 Disorderly pile

9 Paris subway

14 It’s just a thought

15 Non-pro?

16 Deathly pale

17 S, in Morse code

19 Sharply hurt

20 Friend of Tarzan

21 Puzzle in a children’s activity book

23 Paleo-’s opposite

24 Priestly vestment

27 Nickname that sounds like two letters of the alphabet

29 Chipped away at

31 Emphatic

challenge

35 That’s a wrap!

36 Japanese audio

brand

37 Covers, as a

country road

39 Bell ringer’s prank

42 “Kiss From a

Rose” singer

43 Middle: Prefix

44 Vivacity

46 Casual office

occasions

49 Irish name variant

derived from John

51 New Haven-to-Hartford dir.

52 Free spot, in brief

53 Compadre

54 Lead-in to meter

57 Cleared one’s

plate, say 59 Feminine aspect of the masculine personality, in Jungian psychology 61 Modern manufacturing device ... or you, when answering 17-, 31-, 39- and

46-Across?

66 New-fashioned

67 Home of the Inca

Trail

68 Coldplay’s “___ la

Vida”

69 Drawn-out military

attack

70 Itchy hands, for the arrival of money, supposedly

71 Throw forcefully, in

modern parlance

DOWN

1 Poke fun

2 Promising words

3 Tennis call

4 “And there you

have it!”

5 Wade through a book just to trash it, maybe 6 Terminate

7 Thematic element in 2023’s “Oppenheimer”

8 Pocket picked at

lunch?

9 Car whose emblem

is a trident 10 Contractor’s guess:

Abbr.

11 Crack after a bolt

12 Soprano Fleming

13 “My word is my

bond,” informally

18 October birthstone

22 Last of 26, in Canada

24 Intros to many YouTube videos

25 Laundry units

26 Absolutely inundated with work, so to speak

28 “Play it by ear” and “all ears,” e.g. 30 Spoke grandly

32 Like computer

code

33 Had

34 Struggles to

swallow

38 Daniel who led a

1786-87 rebellion

40 Arizona city that

hosts the Fiesta Bowl

41 One behind, in

baseball

45 Intelligence org.

47 “You get it?”

48 ___ pot (receptacle for clearing nasal passages) 49 Traverses

50 Saigon’s

counterpart, once 55 11-time sci-fi role

for Anthony Daniels

56 The same, in Latin

58 Sin represented by John Doe in the movie “Se7en”

60 Ryan of rom-coms

62 Opposite of post

63 Impossible result in a World Cup final

64 Night before 65 Fink