The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Australian avians

5 Absolutely delights

10 “I didn’t see you there!”

15 ___ it down a notch

16 “Too rich for my blood!”

17 Company with a spokeslizard

18 *Classic TV show starring a cowboy puppet

20 Hazardous gas

21 Country whose stamps use glue that’s certified kosher

22 Take over responsibilities from

24 Sailor’s song

26 Kind of card for a phone

27 Harvard rival

30 “How you doin’?”

31 Opus ___

33 Path between buildings

35 Doggedly pursued

39 Smooth-talking

40 *Nursery rhyme character seen in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking- Glass”

42 Proust title character

44 Ex-spousal support

45 Designer dog that crosses a Pomeranian and terrier

47 Neutral shade

48 Flavor-boosting additive, for short

51 A little off

52 Opal or onyx

55 “That’s what they tell me, anyway”

58 Asinine

61 Country between Venezuela and Suriname

62 National mammal of the United States

64 *Very convenient … or, when read in six parts, a hint to the answers to the starred clues

66 Decorate

67 Had dinner at home

68 Sight on the back of a jeep

69 Some TVs and cameras

70 Sharply dressed

71 The apostrophe in :’-(

DOWN

1 House ___ Committee

2 Chinese stir-fry with pork, eggs and mushrooms

3 Open, as a gift

4 Four- door, maybe

5 Approached furtively

6 Rock subgenre

7 Jordan’s Queen ___

8 Fellas

9 Apple Pencil and Microsoft’s Surface Pen, for two

10 Fairy tale baddie

11 *Industrialstrength

12 Treehouse or blanket fort, perhaps

13 Umberto who wrote “Foucault’s Pendulum”

14 Hither and ___

19 So far

23 Mischief-maker

25 Gossipy meddler

28 Washroom, in Worcester

29 London ___ (tourist attraction)

32 Pastoral poem

34 Place to get highlights

35 *Peachy-keen

36 Prefix with potent

37 Polish before publishing

38 Alexandre who wrote “The Count of Monte Cristo”

40 Last name of two U. S. presidents

41 Practice of males mating with one female, but not vice versa, as in bees and ants

42 Health resort

43 “Incredible!”

46 A braggart has a big one

48 Scoundrel

49 ___ Oh, first Asian woman to host a major awards show

50 Not as sunny

53 Actor Hawke

54 Mazda sports car

56 Alternative to the pill, briefly

57 Marriott competitor

59 Road trip accommodations

60 Site with tech tips

62 Undergrad degs.

63 Wedding vow

65 E, in Morse code