The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Suggest without saying

6 “Up, up and ___!” 10 Six years, for a U.S. senator

14 Birds that honk

15 Any of 116 in

Japan’s Inazawa Grand Bowl, the world’s largest bowling alley

16 Major work of art 17 *Beat by a little, as in joke telling 18 *Unfaithful to, as a lover

20 Recipe meas.

21 Word repeated before “Pants on fire!”

22 Network behind the streaming service Peacock

23 Vessel for a frozen lake

26 Commercials 28 Fashionable 31 *Chocolate bar named for a group of literary swordsmen 34 Traitorous Corleone brother in “The Godfather Part II” 35 Calf-length pants 36 _ _ _-Cola

39 Keebler mascot 41 Have people over 42 ___ Fenty, former mayor of Washington, D.C. 45 E-cigarette smoker 48 *Like a space measured by length, width, depth and time 53 “Uhh, I mean …” 54 Prefix with cycle 55 Tarnished reputation

56 Where baby food might wind up, if not in the baby’s mouth

58 Went “Ptui!”

60 Aries animal

61 What the first word of the answer to each starred clue counts, with respect to the second word 64 Exaggerated kind of journalism

66 Back of the foot 67 Artist Magritte 68 Astronomical belt wearer

69 Concludes 70 Calculates sumthing?

71 Baked ___ (side dish)

DOWN

1 “Let me handle this!”

2 Good-hearted sort, from Yiddish

3 Eye, slangily

4 Sch. in Baton Rouge 5 “Mm-hmm”

6 Data point for a pilot

7 H2O, to a toddler 8 Jacket with a name derived from Inuit 9 “So close, ___ so far”

10 Cleopatra’s is still undiscovered 11 Achilles or Aeneas 12 Sprint

13 Flavor enhancer imparting umami, for short

19 Popular photo app, familiarly

21 Shiny fabric

24 “Let’s not play favorites”

25 “___ the ramparts we watched …”

27 Mo. when winter officially starts

29 Part of the eye

30 “Hey, you there!” 32 Do a puzzle

33 Nora who wrote “When Harry Met Sally …”

36 Place for an Americano in Paris? 37 Unpleasant smell 38 Like feta cheese in a Greek salad 40 Celebs’ followings 43 Uzo ___ of “Orange Is the New Black” 44 Writer Anaïs

46 H.S. sophomore’s exam

47 Festival following Ramadan, informally

49 Wasn’t honest with 50 Fantasy land in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”

51 Its basin covers roughly 40% of South America

52 Sour fruit 57 Misfortunes

59 Await a decision 61 ___/her pronouns 62 Currency with the symbol ¥ 63 Undergarment with cups

64 Lump, as of whipped cream 65 Prize that a prospector pries