NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Praise 8 Have a bug, say 11 Boathouse item 14 Weakness 15 Cellular carrier? 16 Move along 17 Selfdeprecatingly titled instructional book series 18 He shared a Nobel Prize with de Klerk 20 Used a scope 22 Got off the

bottle 23 “White Flag”

singer, 2003 26 Golfer’s goof 28 Actress Cheryl or

Diane 29 Financial mogul

Carl 31 To’s partner 32 Griminess 33 Brilliance 35 Piece of cake? 37 German “the” 38 Easy- to- park vehicles … or what can be found four times in this puzzle 41 It can be hard to

process 43 Big loss,

figuratively 44 Warren Buffett,

notably 47 Some corporate

jets 49 It ends with

“zyzzyva,” in brief 51 Certain ticket

category 52 “… if you ___!” 53 Tolkien dragon 55 Calamine target 56 European nation

since 1993 58 Praise 60 Vituperative

sorts 62 Reins cats and

dogs? 66 Took first 67 Gym unit 68 Support, as a

cause 69 Qantas hub, on

tickets 70 Dolt 71 “Casey at the Bat” autobiographer

Down

1 Meet the

expense of 2 Word on a

magnum 3 2015 N. F. L. M. V. P.

Newton 4 City in which

“Glee” is set 5 Listed “others” 6 Gossip column

fodder 7 Walt Whitman’s

“Song of ___” 8 The Adriatic vis- à- vis the Mediterranean 9 Gobsmacked 10 Bowling

reservation 11 Easily decided 12 Longtime TV

exec Roone 13 Access to a treehouse, maybe 19 “Lobster

Telephone” artist 21 Bargain- priced 23 Archaeological

site 24 Some bling 25 Evade, as a

sensitive topic 27 San Francisco’s

___ Tower 30 Puts to sleep, say 32 Histrionics 34 Facial spot 36 Start to terrorism

or tourism 39 Tiny power

source 40 Hilton

alternative 41 Proverbs 42 Pinocchio, by the film’s conclusion 45 Liquor: Abbr. 46 Last in a math

series 48 Intensifies, with

“up” 50 Airport whose main terminal was designed by Eero Saarinen 53 Winter vacation

destination 54 Most over the

top 57 Bubble- filled Nestlé chocolate bar 59 Tailor’s aid 61 50 is a very high

one, in brief 63 Warm greeting 64 Common

linguistic suffix 65 Pommes frites

seasoning