The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Runs recreationally

5 Some hotel room

amenities

10 The “Toreador

Song,” for one

14 From the top

15 Fulfill mundane but necessary responsibilities, in modern lingo

16 Sift (through)

17 Software prototype

18 Vessels with large

containers

20 Does pranks with

rolls, informally

22 Connecticut Ivy

Leaguer

23 Nail polish brand

25 Pursue

romantically

28 Actor/comedian Lil

___ Howery

29 Talking item in Dora the Explorer’s backpack

32 Oceanfront district

of Los Angeles

35 Manhattan

neighborhood

37 Front-page mergers and acquisitions, e.g.

39 Grayish

40 Skateboarding

jump

41 Neckwear that

smells nice

42 Photographer

Adams

43 Difficult, unfun

chore

44 Investment guide

calculation

46 Props for

presentations 49 Most reptilian, in a

way

50 “Spring forward” or

“fall back” letters

51 Electrical unit with a Greek letter symbol

53 Look at

54 Beings not (yet)

proven to exist

55 Thundering

57 Trinity member

59 Exclamation point inside a yellow triangle, for one

64 “Only Murders in

the Building” airer

67 Nobel laureate

Wiesel

68 Longtime Jay

Silverheels role

69 Ankh-carrying

goddess

70, 71 & 72

Commits perjury … or what can be found four times in this puzzle

DOWN

1 Sharp punch

2 “!” keymate

3 Scramming

4 Exchange

5 ___ fly

6 Org. promoting

canine care

7 Spleen

8 “Enigma Variations” composer

9 Lifted

10 Be sore

11 Pépin le Bref, par

exemple

12 Troublesome sort 13 Muscles tightened

by planking, in brief

19 Storage tower

21 Greta Garbo, by

birth

23 Diffused gradually

24 Saffron-flavored

dishes

26 Horatian creation

27 Big name in

brushes

29 Beauty pageant founded in 1959 as a mail-in photo contest

30 One who doesn’t

have a prayer?

31 Alternatives to

street parking

33 Negro leagues

great Satchel

34 Butterlike spreads

36 Hawaiian island shaped like an apostrophe

38 Considering the

fact that

42 Setting for many

van Gogh works 45 It’ll dawn on you

47 Folk stories

48 Up-start?

52 Worker with a

trowel

55 A long, long time

56 Food part that’s

usually not eaten

58 Home of Denison

University

59 Tierra ___ Fuego

60 Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year in 1974 (10 years after he first became world champion)

61 German “never”

62 Bell Atlantic merger

partner of 2000

63 Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed

65 Buzzing … or, in a different sense, buzzed

66 Do a wedding task,

informally