NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 West Coast law force, for short

5 Insurer whose name rhymes with “quack” 10 Q-tip, e.g.

14 Regions

16 Where the Dolphins play

17 Prey for cats

18 Characters in a play, formally

21 Unit of corn

22 Loopy from drugs

23 Some herding dogs

24 Monarch renowned for his wealth

28 N.Y.C. subway inits.

29 Down Under hoppers, informally

30 Overlook rudely

33 Ice cream treat

36 Veer, as a ship

37 Miracle-___ (garden brand)

38&39 Doomsayer’s assertion … or a phonetic hint to 18-, 24-, 51- and 61-Across

42 Santa ___ winds

43 “How stupid of

me!”

46 More tidy

47 Trail mix

49 Japanese

noodle 50 61, in old Rome

51 College team from the land of Lincoln

57 How TV series

DVDs may be sold

59 DNA sequence

60 Gen ___ (millennial forerunner)

61 Yom Kippur War clash

65 Response from a greatly amused texter

66 Better aligned

67 Goes way, way up

68 Bellow

69 Comic Bruce with a foul mouth

70 Big Board inits.

Down

1 Stows, as cargo

2 Pianist Claudio

3 Gem strung on a necklace

4 Beaver’s construction

5 Mexican friend

6 Popular Friday feast

7 Once around the track

8 Soul: Fr.

9 Ringling Brothers offering, once

10 Round-the camp fire treats

11 Going off script 12 Smoothie “superfruit”

13 “Subjects” of a queen, not a king

15 Like the climate of the African desert

19 Like some auto windows

20 “Like father, like ___”

25 Beach washer

26 Breath-taking snake

27 Specification on an airline ticket

31 Desire

32 Physics Nobelist Niels

33 Without a date

34 “You might think so, but …”

35 Grave, as injuries

39 Queued

40 Strictly platonic 41 Hammer’s target

43 Bit of an ellipsis

44 Japanese sash

45 Do a surfing maneuver

48 Glock, for one

49 Jewish village of old

52 Dr. Scholl’s padding

53 Architect Frank

54 No, in pig Latin

55 Comes closer

56 “And Still ___” (Angelou volume)

57 With competence 58 Uncreative bar order, with “the”

62 Metal before refinement

63 When said three times, a Beach Boys hit

64 Charged particle