NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Start of a

14- Across

5 [ Just …

disappeared!] 9 Part of a

necklace 14 Creative nugget 15 One whose charges are sarges

17 ___ system 18 Kay, e. g. 20 Introduction to

physics? 21 Squid organ 22 Elle, e. g.

24 “I’ll be there in five minutes,” often 25 Nebraska

senator Fischer 27 Pop singer

Brickell

28 Dead head? 29 Many a flat

screen 31 Altiplano locale 33 “You said it!,” in

slang

34 Dry Spanish

wine

36 Union members 38 Pea, e. g. 42 Knockout 43 Merit 44 Supermodel born Melissa Miller 45 Coming- out

phrase

48 Noise at night 52 Day ___ 53 Greek goddess

of the earth 54 Charade 56 Twitter titter 57 Bee, e. g.

60 Blob on a slide 62 Closing bid? 63 Explained in great detail … or what four of this puzzle’s clues are? 65 Eurasia divider 66 Roger ___, second- longestserving chief justice of the Supreme Court 67 Instead

68 Gives

conditionally 69 Minnesota

W. N. B. A. team 70 Goes down

Down

1 Vet- assisting legislation of 1944

2 Heavenly

3 Stank to high

heaven

4 Land of

Opportunity? 5 Track bet 6 Supporting 7 Largest employer in metro Detroit 8 Like most

parking garages 9 Go after 10 Perplexed

11 “The ___ for 50 enemies is one friend”: Aristotle 12 Practitioner of

the dark arts 13 Line of athletic

footwear 16 Shake, as one’s

tail

19 Uneasy feeling 23 Liturgical

reference book 26 Cabo’s peninsula 30 Playground

wheels

32 Ride hard 33 Arouse 35 Novelist Patrick who wrote “Master and Commander” 37 “Have I ever steered you wrong?!” 38 Buddy 39 Language in which “Hello, how are you?” is “Salut, ce mai faci?” 40 Mendes of

“2 Fast 2 Furious” 41 Rudolph with a parody of Kamala Harris on “S. N. L.” 42 Electric guitar

innovator 46 Thick

47 Ladies’ night

attendee 49 Enthusiastic

flamenco cry 50 Hearty

51 Gives a lift 53 Magnetic

induction unit 55 Sepals of a flower, collectively 58 Retained … or

detained 59 Playground

rhyme starter 61 Some tributes 64 “Dancing With the Stars” judge Goodman