The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Big, in adspeak 5 Game show

shout-out 10 “Miss ___ Regrets,” jazz standard performed by Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald 14 Draft picks 15 Grammy

category 16 Sport shooting

variety

17 After the top half of a 7-Down, sophisticated lady

19 Total War game

company

20 His murder elicited the first wail of mourning, in Islamic accounts 21 Lead-in to care 23 Icy remark? 24 When the Lyrid meteor shower typically peaks 26 Bucolic call 27 Sport shooting

variety

29 King of cubs 30 Before the bottom half of a 7-Down, tipple and then some 32 That, en

España 33 Carrie in “Sex

and the City” 34 Flash point? 36 Savage 40 Stopped producing new leads, as an investigation 44 Apt rhyme for

“lumberjacks” 45 After the top half of a 42Down, circles around the block?

48 Leave out 49 Silly

50 “Live well”

sloganeer 51 You can see

right through it 52 MC ___ of

N.W.A

53 Talk up 55 Where you might search for a lead? 56 Stained, in a

way

58 Before the bottom half of a 42-Down, keeps arguing after something has been decided 62 Prerelease, in

Silicon Valley 63 Japanese

automaker 64 Isle known as “The Gathering Place”

65 Funk

66 Throat malady,

for short 67 Graph

component

Down 1 Portrait seen on renminbi bank notes

2 Pole worker 3 “Cool it,

lovebirds” 4 Rubbish

receptacle

5 Cry of pain …

or laughter 6 Major talking point on CNBC, maybe

7 Hybrid creature

of myth

8 City sieged by

Joan of Arc 9 Anti-D.U.I. org. 10 “Fourth periods” in hockey, for short 11 A host of

answers? 12 “Seconded” 13 Rival of Athens 18 Sushi bar

choice 22 Follower of Christmas or Easter

24 Son in “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” 25 ___ Pizza (punny trattoria name)

26 It may be

wireless 28 Green smoothie

ingredient 30 Liquid-Plumr

alternative 31 Some tribal leaders on “Game of Thrones” 33 Playwright

Bertolt 35 Bucolic beasts 37 Certain protective parent, colloquially 38 Graph

component 39 “Sounds like a

plan” 41 Late-night

interviewee, e.g. 42 Hybrid creature

of myth

43 “Lord of the

Rings” baddie 45 Gummy candy

brand

46 Kicked things

off

47 Connect with 48 Hard one to teach, in a saying

51 Inits. in a.m. TV 54 They might be tied using a taiko musubi (“drum knot”) 55 “Time ___!” 57 Maneuverable,

in nautical lingo 59 Philosopher

Mo-___ 60 Sushi bar

choice 61 Letdown at a

fireworks show