NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 TV show with

three stars

5 Talent show

entries 9 Kind of knife 14 Treat with the identical color scheme as this puzzle 15 Brainstorming result 16 ___ Kane, longtime “All My Children” role 17 Deli stock 18 Subject of a Better Business Bureau investigation 19 Neighbor on TV’s “Bewitched”

20 Power players 23 Former Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke 24 “Oh, were it not so” 25 Where crafty people may be found online?

27 Rap, so to speak

30 Any member of the United

Nations

35 Staircase decoration

37 Place to go in

London

38 Early operating

system

39 Brunch vessel

40 New York’s Daily

News, e.g.

43 Kimono accessory

44 “Toodles”

46 Pencil that’s been

much used 47 Shakes awake 49 Wooden crossings that provide protection from the weather 52 Chemically nonreactive 53 Product of the Kellogg Company

54 Traffic signal? 56 Internet company that helped launch TMZ 58 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for one 64 Celebrated husky 66 “Get to work!” 67 Just 68 Holiday season feeling 69 “Good job!” 70 Front end 71 Nappy material 72 Sizable vessels 73 One-ups

Down

1 May honorees 2 Specialty

3 Penn name 4 “Hooo-whee!” 5 Host Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

6 Media protector introduced in the ’80s

7 Deck chair

material

8 “Me too!”

9 Wild bunch 10 Sphere of power 11 Edge out the

competition

12 Relative of a Slurpee 13 Bring home 21 Winter weather forecast 22 “Luncheon of the Boating Party” artist 26 “Rugrats” dad 27 Robert the ___, much-storied king of Scotland 28 Leaving nothing to the imagination 29 Classic poem that begins “It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea”

31 “You don’t say!” 32 Sticky stuff 33 Roman river

34 Be 36 Hit-or-miss 41 Programmer’s problem 42 Taking care of

45 Dot follower, online 48 Needing neatening 50 Slight, in a way 51 Comic’s “thing” 55 Hall’s singing partner 56 Subject of a book that goes from apple to zebra 57 Island with a royal palace 59 Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay 60 Like some detective fiction 61 Leader who succeeded his adoptive father 62 Sorghum, e.g. 63 Trees whose name sounds like letters of the alphabet 65 “How I Met Your Mother” narrator