NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Skirt bottoms 5 Ticklish Muppet 9 Gets thin on top 14 With: Fr. 15 Banquet 16 Lewis and ___

Expedition 17 GARFIELD + U =

Beach V. I. P. 19 “___ at the Bat” 20 City NW of

Detroit 21 “Help me, Obi- Wan Kenobi,” e. g. 23 Home for Nixon and Reagan: Abbr. 24 “It’s a date!” 26 MADISON + A =

“Me, too!” 29 Shakespearean

cries 30 Bounding main 32 Pathetic group 33 Mysterious sighting in the Himalayas 35 Some rulings on

PolitiFact 38 Mortgage, e. g. 39 FILLMORE + V =

Movie buff 42 Like racehorses’

feet 44 Who asks “What can I help you with?” on an iPhone 45 Author

Silverstein 49 Soccer blocker 51 President pro

___ 53 Lab eggs 54 HARDING + P = Squeezable exercise tool 57 Actor Snipes of “White Men Can’t Jump” 59 Approves 60 Famous ___

cookies 62 River of Cologne 63 Uncle Sam’s land,

for short 66 COOLIDGE + P = Narc’s fourfooted helper 68 Humdingers 69 Panache 70 Pistol sound 71 Hybrid picnic

utensil 72 Philosophies 73 First half of a

Senate vote

Down

1 Two- year mark, in a presidential term 2 Wicked look 3 Egoistic demand 4 National Mall, for a presidential inauguration 5 Six- foot bird 6 ___ years ( when presidents are elected) 7 Maples formerly married to Donald Trump 8 Like the days of

yore 9 Send covertly, as

an email 10 Leader in a state

roll call: Abbr. 11 Milan opera

house 12 “You wish!” 13 Like atria 18 Onetime Pontiac

muscle cars 22 What a majority of campaign spending goes toward 25 Dickens’s Little

___ 27 Store sign on

Presidents’Day 28 Aromas 31 Gets ready to

shoot 34 “Too rich for my

blood” 36 QB Manning 37 Separate, as whites from colors 40 “Got it!,” beatnikstyle 41 ABC show on weekday mornings, with “The” 42 Absorbs 43 “StarWars” pilot 46 There’s one to honor presidents every February 47 The slightest

amount 48 What hens do 49 Grave robbers 50 Word after many presidents’ names 52 Bygone Ford

make, briefly 55 Celebrated Chinese- born architect 56 Diving venues 58 Queen of ___ ( visitor of King Solomon, in the Bible) 61 Poetry

competition 64 Mink or sable 65 Query 67 Political

connections