The New York Times

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0421

ACROSS

1 Rounds out,

as an event

5 Sound of a cake hitting the floor, frosting first

10 Gush (over), as to

gain favor

14 Plant watcher, for

short

15 Reluctant

16 Designer Saab

17 Wins the Hunger

Games, e.g.

19 Young newts

20 Annual pageant

winner

21 –

22 Maker of Z-cars,

once

23 Hoover rival

25 Online handle

28 Like the “5” of “5

& 10”

33 Maine university

town

34 Repellent spray

37 Coleridge’s “The

___ Harp”

39 One requested by disgruntled customers: Abbr.

40 Bard’s “before”

41 See 30-Down

42 Common street

name in suburbia

43 Fish with a long

snout

44 Mexico has 31 of

these

45 “The Sleep of

Reason Produces

Monsters” artist

46 Go haywire

48 Have as a tenant

50 One of the Eternals, in Marvel comics

52 Insurance giant acquired by CVS in 2018

56 Followers of the largest denomination of Islam

57 Labor group for athletes

62 – 63 Top-shelf 64 Supersharp 66 Actress Kunis of “Family Guy” 67 “Thumbs up from me!”

68 Sea eagle 69 Rustic verse 70 Steady looks 71 Wine category

DOWN

1 Classic pink

cocktail

2 Up and about

3 Terrible twos, e.g.

4 Surrenders

5 Ukrainian, for one

6 Neighbor of a

Ukrainian

7 Hideout

8 Off-roaders, for

short

9 Grp. established by 1992’s Maastricht Treaty 10 Bottom ___

11 Car whose logo features a coiled green serpent

12 With full

knowledge

13 Puccini aria popularized by Pavarotti

18 “Only joking!,” to

a texter

24 –

26 Acoustic measure

27 –

29 Result of a rift

30 With 41-Across, a celestial event … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

31 Top-shelf

32 What avocados don’t do until they’re picked

34 Catastrophic

weather event potentially caused by a meteor crash

35 Spiderlike

36 “Yes, of course”

38 Brief second?

41 Bruins legend, to

fans

45 Receives an anesthetic, perhaps

47 Open, as a tomb

49 Button on a scale

51 Herb unit

53 Un gato grande

54 Incessantly

55 Much of Chile

58 ___ land

59 Ansari of “Master

of None”

60 Harness

61 You are, in

Spanish

63 –

65 –