The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 “Yo — check this out!”
5 Laze in the rays
9 ___ colada
13 Kind of palm
14 Subject taught in a madrasa
16 Endmost compartment in a till
17 What Santa said when his sleigh touched down?
19 Singer Redding
20 “Jingle Bells” or “White Christmas”
21 Special treatment, for short
22 “Damn Yankees” vamp
23 What Santa might say on his North Pole hotline?
27 It’s an affront
28 Slightly
29 Latin gods
32 Lasting mark
35 Kind of fatty acid
38 What Santa said when the reindeer went on strike on Christmas Eve?
42 Get a hurry on
43 Norse god with a hammer
44 ___ Beta Kappa
45 Sporty car roof
47 ___ soup
50 What Santa said when going down a chimney that had a lit fireplace?
56 State firmly
57 Tidbit in vegetable soup
58 Reason for hoarseness
60 Zig or zag
61 What Santa says around dawn on Christmas Day?
64 Red Muppet
65 Loop with a slipknot
66 Menu bar heading
67 “God ___ Ye Merry, Gentlemen”
68 What you may call it
69 Lawman Eliot
Down
1 ___ verde (desert tree)
2 Where shampoo is applied
3 Place to get a C.D. or an I.R.A.
4 Spruces (up)
5 Part of a dating profile, for short
6 All the dirt on Santa?
7 A deadly sin
8 Mexican artist Frida
9 Place where one might hear “That’s my cue!”
10 Past the point of no return
11 Sam of “Jurassic Park”
12 Syria’s Bashar al-___
15 Coffee shop order
18 Mend
24 Part of a window thrown up in “A Visit From St. Nicholas”
25 Florida theme park
26 Nebraska county named for an indigenous people
29 Talk trash about
30 “Blah, blah, blah …”: Abbr.
31 Weather map lines relating to temperature
33 Something to say to a doctor
34 Parts of guesses in Clue
36 Kinda sorta
37 Onetime CBS forensic drama
39 Rhyming question of attractiveness
40 “However …,” in texts
41 Partner of proper
46 Drop by unexpectedly
48 C-worthy
49 “Sure, if that’s how you feel …”
50 Sharp critic
51 Undeveloped egg cell
52 Air freshener scent
53 Country bumpkin
54 Get washed away
55 Round of four
59 Favorites
62 Buckeyes’ sch.
63 French ___ (bird in “The 12 Days of Christmas”)