The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Gradually develop, literally
5 Doozy
10 Gradually develop, literally
14 Cuba’s ___ Castro, brother of Fidel
15 Kind of group in chemistry
16 Like many indie films
17 Last monarch of the House of Stuart
18 Barber’s belt
19 Trademarked coffee holder
20 Sierra ___ (Mexican range, informally)
22 Comicdom’s “Queen of the Jungle”
24 Things you might save while driving
26 More aged, as some cheeses
27 Aptly named mascot of the 2000 Olympics
28 Jean-___ Picard of “Star Trek”
29 “Watch it!”
30 Boom producer, once: Abbr.
31 Leaves in the kitchen?
33 Developing phenomena literally depicted three times in this puzzle
43 One way an animal may be held
44 Shakespearean cries
45 The “Gateway to the West”
46 Chinwagging
48 In a bind
50 Google ___, service beginning in 2017
51 Name hidden in “oleomargarine”
52 Way off
54 Gradually develop, literally
58 Company originally founded as Blue Ribbon Sports
61 Commoner
63 “Let’s ___!”
64 Is the real deal
65 Kitchen gadget with an edge
66 French season
67 Butterfly, but not a caterpillar
68 Hole maker
69 Norse god of war
70 “Are you down for this?”
Down
1 Pop-pop
2 Farm storehouse
3 Punished for the weekend, perhaps
4 Beer containers
5 One might hit a very low pitch
6 Many an essential worker, for short
7 Put on
8 Game in which the object is to score
500 points 9 High-quality
10 Total phony
11 Some surgical tools
12 Enormous amounts to spend
13 “As far as I’m concerned …”
21 Sushi staple that isn’t served raw
23 Put a fork in it!
25 Quantity contrasted with a vector, in physics
26 Most like a wallflower
32 Foxy
33 Ink holder
34 Kind of power in math
35 Early 2010s
36 You might make waves when you lie about this
37 Bunch of bits
38 Shaving canful
39 Fried food whose name translates to “breaded”
40 Big name in juice pouches
41 All-time gobetween
42 Crestfallen
47 Fabled visitors to
49-Down, in brief
49 Southwest city in 1947 news
52 Screen display
53 Kerfuffle 55 Opposite of dry, to a vintner
56 Evidencing physical exertion
57 Suffer in the summer heat
59 Spot for firing
60 “At Last” singer James
62 Palindromic word in classic poetry
64 Hem’s partner