The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Kids and their

parents

6 Help with a job, in

a way

10 Wanted, but nowhere to be found

14 Nickname for Schwarzenegger or Palmer

15 Winged chatterbox

16 Deal (with)

17 Hive minders

19 Having trouble

deciding

20 Early-season

farming task

21 C, for one

23 Video chat

disruption

24 Words before “the stars are brightly shining,” in a carol

27 Lute ___, longtime Arizona basketball coach

32 Winged hooter

33 Grind, as one’s

teeth

34 Second-mostvisited website worldwide, after Google

36 Many a Hollywood

car crash

38 So as not to stand

out

39 Some South

Pacific greetings

42 “Skol!,” in

Sauternes

44 Literally, “on

fire” … or, metaphorically, excellent

45 “Three coins”

fountain location

47 Lip

49 Scatter, as flower

petals

50 Drink that comes

with a buzz cut?

53 Gently touch, either forward or backward

54 Staples of West

African cuisine

55 Frustrate

61 Et ___ (and

others)

63 Entranced … or what one can do by reading the starts of 17-, 24-, 34-, 44and 50-Across in order?

65 Neatnik’s opposite

66 Palindromic

fashion magazine

67 Petulant

68 Line up

69 Ones calling

offsides

70 Garlic squeezer

DOWN

1 Yaks

2 Twistable snack

item

3 From the top

4 First man, in Polynesian creation myth

5 Observed

6 Rock blaster

7 “Ta-ta!”

8 Prepares to get

schooled, perhaps

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9 Yummilicious

10 Not just sit around

daydreaming

11 Just sit around

daydreaming

12 ___ Book Club

13 Yardstick

measurement

18 ___ trip

22 Swamps

25 De-weeder

26 West Coast burger

chain

27 Cries of dismay

28 “Sweet Jane”

songwriter Reed

29 Indented part of

an outline

30 ___ rima (eightline stanza)

31 Invalidate

35 Sch. affiliated with the Latter-day Saints

37 Amy who wrote “The Joy Luck Club”

40 Bouncer’s concern

41 Female hog

43 Ride roughshod

over

44 911 responder

45 QB’s six-pointer

46 In actuality

48 In and of ___

51 Means of tagging

in a game

52 Class offered at

many Y.M.C.A.s

56 Baking meas.

57 “That’s ___

business”

58 Workhorse that’s

only part horse

59 Tattoo shop

supplies

60 Ice cream brand

62 “American Idol” airer starting in 2018

64 “___ Miz”