NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Gets rid of, so to

speak

5 Parties with

glowsticks 10 Old-fashioned

taste?

13 Menu at un café 15 Amazon’s biz 16 Subj. for some aspiring bilinguals 17 Clamoring for “The Bonfire of the Vanities”? 19 They can help you get out of a rut, for short 20 Business plan 21 One of 20 on the

Titanic

23 TV alien played

by Robin Williams 24 Selling someone on “The Importance of Being Earnest”? 26 Group with

lodges

28 Exam with logic questions, for short

29 “Any other place

besides here?” 34 Genesis creator 37 Curse

38 Kindle, e.g. … or a hint to this puzzle’s theme? 41 Hair color of about 2% of the world’s population

42 Not fooled by 44 They’re a bit of a

stretch

46 Some jeans

features 49 Humorist

Bombeck

50 Spot to store “A Confederacy of Dunces”?

54 ___ Zor-El, real

name of Supergirl 58 Battle with clearly

defined sides 59 “Now wait just a

second!”

61 With 14-Down, what “Fin” might mean

62 Positive review of a Nancy Drew mystery? 64 “Jingle Bells”

contraction 65 Architect born in

Guangzhou

66 A dance or a dip 67 Narc (on)

68 Six of the first 10 elements on the periodic table 69 Units of poetry

Down

1 Philosopher with

a “razor”

2 Crime drama set

in the Midwest 3 Fast-food fixture 4 Rascal 5 Counterpart of

“FF”

6 Bikini, e.g.

7 Sound

8 Towering figure

of architecture? 9 Is out

10 Creatures that have the densest fur of any mammal (up to 1 million hairs per square inch) 11 Hayes with three Grammys and an Oscar

12 “Lady Lazarus”

poet Sylvia

14 See 61-Across 18 Onetime popular blog that covered Manhattan gossip 22 Predisposition 25 R&B’s ___

Brothers

27 Big name in jeans 29 “___ goes there?” 30 Lay figure? 31 People person,

perhaps 32 Portuguese title

with a tilde 33 Cusps

35 “My word!” 36 Often-skipped

parts of podcasts 39 Coarse 40 Dashboard abbr. 43 “Essential” things 45 Gold insignia of

the armed forces 47 Babe or Wilbur, in

film 48 Conceptual

framework 50 Aristotle, to Alexander the Great

51 Tony nominee

Milo

52 A host

53 Host

55 Singer of the titular song in 2012’s “Skyfall” 56 Clear one’s plate,

in a way 57 Bothered terribly 60 Gives the

thumbs-up 63 “___ Last Bow” (Sherlock Holmes story)