NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Perennial

campaign issue 5 Airplane wing

feature 9 Cool, giant sun 14 Taken by mouth 15 Sweat spot 16 Remote control

button 17 Grinder 18 Totally focused 19 Brooding worry 20 Big part of the

NewWorld 23 It’s pitched with

a pitchfork 24 Present oneself

falsely 28 Greek island in

the Aegean Sea 31 Common supply

for a party 33 One cause for an

R rating 34 Wagering venue,

briefly 35 Like some

missiles 38 Onetime Volvo

competitor 39 Compromise… or a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s shaded squares 43 Bad temper 44 Flashy 1940s

men’s attire 45 Lead- in to bred

or behaved 46 Channel for

“Conan” 49 ___- Caps

( theater candy) 50 Faux ___ 51 Seaside cookout 54 Fast- food chain with a goateed spokesman 56 Flashing light

phenomenon 61 Ridiculous 64 Pink 65 Humdinger 66 Arms and legs 67 “The Complete Works ofWilliam Shakespeare,” e. g. 68 10- Down

resident 69 On the nose 70 What’s happening and when, informally 71 Recorded

message prompt

Down

1 Donald ___

Trump 2 ___ Blizzard ( Dairy Queen offering) 3 Roseanne of

“Roseanne” 4 Animal that hangs upside down in trees 5 Graffiti artist’s

tool 6 Rich soil 7 Big name in

beauty products 8 Game craze of the late 1980s and ’ 90s 9 Falcon rocket

launcher 10 Yemen’s capital 11 Pull 12 Nativity scene

figure 13 Emeritus: Abbr. 21 Country to which Frederick Douglass was a U. S. ambassador 22 Natalie Cole’s “___ Got Love on My Mind” 25 Pack, as a car

for travel 26 Napoli’s nation 27 Field where Jackie Robinson played 28 Like the meter

in sonnets 29 Ed of “Modern

Family” 30 Popular Belgian

beer, for short 32 Fictional tree

creature 36 Carmel finish? 37 Letters on an

AM dial 38 1960s radical

grp. 40 Canon model 41 Tinkered ( with) 42 “Knock ___!” 46 Intradermal diagnostic, for short 47 Many a lounge 48 Some tennis

wear 52 “___ Live” ( daytime news program) 53 Kindle material 55 B equivalent 57 Salinger

dedicatee 58 Tip of France? 59 Family 60 Idiot box 61 ___- de- France 62 Put the kibosh

on 63 Operator’s org.?