NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Modern Persia

5 Arnaz who

loved Lucy

9 Become

acclimated

14 “Finding ___” (2003 Pixar film)

15 Alternative to a

wood, in golf

16 Name said twice before “Wherefore art thou”

17 In vogue

18 Oscar the

Grouch’s home

20 International Court of Justice location, with “The”

22 Bulls in a

bullfight

23 Old weapon in hand-to-hand combat

26 Place for a nest

30 Digital picture,

maybe

31 Less fresh

33 Emergency call

in Morse code

36 Wild guess

39 With 60-Across, one of two U.S. vice presidents to resign from office

40 Result of a football blitz, maybe

44 Completely

anesthetized

45 Exercise that might be done on a mat

46 Cover gray,

perhaps

47 Like vinegar

49 “Holy moly!” 52 English channel, informally, with “the”

53 Bit of fashionable footwear

58 Home in the shape of a dome

60 See 39-Across

62 Dreaded cry from a boss … or a hint to the ends of 18-,

23-, 40- and 53-Across

67 Listing in a

travel guide

68 Texas ___ (school NW of Houston)

69 Dealer in

futures?

70 It’s a plot!

71 News media

72 Rival of Harvard

73 Wood for boat

decks

DOWN

1 Not give an ___

(be stubborn)

2 Give a makeover, informally

3 Spanish

girlfriend

4 “Hey, don’t jump in front of me in the line!”

5 Insult

6 Time span sometimes named after a president

7 Rather,

informally

8 Where work

may pile up

9 Best Picture winner set in 1-Across

10 Swims at the

Y, say 11 “The Walking

Dead” network

12 Cause of a sleepless night for a princess, in a fairy tale

13 Whole bunch

19 Greek counterpart of Mars

21 Yadda, yadda,

yadda

24 Zap with a light

beam

25 Contest

attempt

27 Classic work that’s the basis for Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida”

28 “Goodness

gracious!”

29 Not having two nickels to rub together

32 “For shame!”

33 Fledgling pigeon

34 Weight whose abbreviation ends in a “z,” oddly

35 “Sexy” lady in a

Beatles song 37 Blood grouping

system

38 Hole-some

breakfast food?

41 Nickname for the Cardinals, with “the”

42 Prefix with -pod

or -partite

43 Zoo enclosure

48 Foal : mare ::

___ : cow

50 Lawyers’ org.

51 Took care of someone else’s pooch

54 Loud

55 Land with a demilitarized zone

56 Delayed

57 Four: Prefix

59 Insets in a

crown

61 Line on a

calendar

62 Talk, talk, talk

63 Regatta

implement

64 French “a”

65 Wriggly fish

66 Dr. of hip-hop