The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Letter-shaped girder
6 Prejudice
10 Male delivery
13 Starts hearts, say
14 Tiny fly
15 Copy
16 Job interview for a wannabe tax collector?
18 Certain Dominican
19 What’s mined to keep?
20 Setting depicted in the Sistine Chapel
21 10:1, e.g.
23 ___ X
26 Teri of “Tootsie”
28 “Bless you” preceder
30 Place to get some “me time”
34 What the surfing enthusiast has?
38 “Movin’ ___”
39 Preceder of “TV” on cable TV
40 Brand of cornstarch
41 Name for a huge marathon?
46 On the wrong path
47 Go halfsies on
48 Too cute, on the Thames
50 Hangs tight
54 Compact ___
56 Story that goes on and on … and on
58 She might give you her coat
59 Spout (off)
60 Unwelcome sight on a bill … or a clue to 16-, 34- and 41-Across
64 ___ dye (chemical coloring)
65 Is rife (with)
66 Who might say “Take me to your leader”
67 Kind of bulb, in brief
68 Basket shot from behind the arc, in hoops slang
69 Singer Cyrus
Down
1 “Hot to trot” or “cool as a cucumber”
2 Yogi who said “You can observe a lot by just watching”
3 Studio supporter
4 Similar to
5 East Lansing school, in brief
6 Quick snack
7 Naming
8 “Give it ___”
9 Married women, in Oaxaca
10 Green Day or Black Sabbath
11 Magnum ___
12 Kyoto dough
14 The 15th or so
17 Home to Jawaharlal Nehru University
22 Cures, in a way
24 Alternatives to garages
25 Neurotic condition, for short
27 ___-compliant
29 Nasty sorts
31 Assistant who asks “What can I help you with?”
32 Comic strip that’s the source of the line “We have met the enemy and he is us”
33 Soon, poetically
34 When doubled, a Pacific paradise
35 Albatross
36 Rosemary Clooney, to George Clooney
37 Does a service station job
42 Farrah of the original “Charlie’s Angels”
43 Actor Sheridan who co-starred in “Ready Player One”
44 Hipbone-related
45 Like candles before singing “Happy Birthday”
49 Cosmetician Lauder
51 Rising sea levels, e.g.
52 “Wow, you shouldn’t have …”
53 Itty-bitty
54 Go out briefly?
55 It can carry a tune
57 One side in a college football rivalry since 1890
59 Bud
61 Child of the ’70s, e.g.
62 Showboater
63 Woman’s nickname that drops “-son”