The New York Times

ACROSS

1 “The Winner Takes

It All” group

5 Singer Diana

9 Radiate

13 Hardly a jaunt

14 Ready to go

16 Central points

17 Tolled time

18 “Byeee!”

19 One having a turn

at a roast?

20 You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em

23 Worrier’s words

24 Former queen of

Jordan

25 Good cheer

26 What do ewe say?

27 Spice ___

29 Often-changed

item of wear

31 Know when to fold

‘em

35 ___ Mode, animated film character who says “Words are useless! Gobblegobble-gobblegobble-gobblegobble!”

36 It might be in the form of a thumbnail

37 “The Music Man”

locale

41 Know when to

walk away

46 Famed designer

whose career was boosted by “American Gigolo”

49 Small batteries

50 Butter, e.g.

51 Concern for a

tailor

52 ___ facto

55 Box markings

57 And know when to

run

60 Moistens

61 Water nymph

62 Earnest request

64 Pueblo people

65 “The Child,” also known as Baby Yoda

66 Snack, as on a

knish

67 Places with

springs

68 Exclamation after

a witty comeback

69 ___ Major

DOWN

1 Bit of air pollution

2 Gasbag

3 Anthony of “Parts

Unknown”

4 Concur

5 Speaker’s

platform

6 Scott Turow

memoir

7 Gertrude who wrote “We are always the same age inside”

8 “___ to This” (song from “Hamilton”)

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9 Jewelry designer

Peretti

10 Mod do

11 It comes to a point when it’s too cold outside

12 One who gives

one-tenth

15 Tiered temple

21 Actress Gilbert

22 Hosp. scans

23 Light wind?

28 Lettuce wrap

lettuce

30 “Yeah, suuuure”

32 Event with a dress

code

33 Snoopy grp.

34 German film award akin to an Oscar

38 Risqué

39 “What is your greatest ___?” (interview question)

40 Section of a Sunday newspaper

42 “Wilco!”

43 Erasing, as data

44 Prepared to skate

45 Org. with thousands of inspectors

46 Forty winks

47 Provoke

48 View from

Catania, in brief

53 Shoots up

54 Whopper

ingredient

56 College sports

channel

58 Print collectors, for short

59 “A Song of Ice and

Fire,” e.g.

63 “Why, that’s it!”