The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Small headache 5 Onetime chain that offered Free Battery Club memberships 15 10-Down

highlight 16 Best-selling heavy metal band named for a torture device

17 Big ol’ mouth 18 Brushing, e.g. 19 TV character who said “I am so smart! I am so smart! S-MR-T!”

21 Old worker

with pads

22 Big ol’ mouth 23 Pine product 25 It’s flat on a

snapback 26 Coin-___

27 8 vis-à-vis 2 29 Aimee ___ McPherson, evangelist behind America’s first megachurch 34 Vulnerable newcomers, in slang

37 Field

38 Duo in an

ellipse 39 Intoxicate 41 They might be gathered by the pound

42 Bio subj. 43 Labor union offering, perhaps 45 More than

dangerous 48 Part

49 Banned Books

Week org. 50 ___ Yaga

(folklore villain) 52 Release

54 Its structure was evidenced by Photo

51, an X-ray captured in 1952

57 Several

Russian czars 59 Cocktail tidbit 61 Going from 99

to 100, say 64 Archer of note 65 In hot pursuit 66 See 60-Down 67 Experts in

English? 68 Sharp, in a way

Down

1 Trail

2 Like a

butterfingers 3 Bucky in the comic strip “Get Fuzzy,” e.g.

4 Patches up, in

a way

5 Clear

6 Foe of Wonder

Woman

7 “Stay in

touch!”

8 Place

underground 9 Subjects of a certain sultanate 10 Strauss work with the “Dance of the Seven Veils” 11 Flashin’ Fruit

Punch brand 12 #1 dad? 13 Michael who played George Michael Bluth on TV 14 Was

aware

20 Like angel investors and devil’s food cake

24 Not sensitive

(to)

26 Viscera 28 Queen’s

subjects

30 Not natural 31 The art of

politics? 32 Entitled

sort

33 Desire of a

quick study? 35 Emperor’s order in “Star Wars” 36 Fatty tuna in Japanese cuisine 40 Register 44 Stay good 46 Goes along

with 47 Extravagant 51 Where to get money in Milano

53 Bit of a

character

54 Go down 55 You shouldn’t

do this

56 What you might unthinkingly be on

58 Gone down 60 With 66-Across, “Good thinking!” 62 Senators’ org. 63 Three for a

trey: Abbr.