NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Rent” character who sings “Light My Candle”
5 “And there you have it!”
10 “Woo-hoo! The weekend’s here!”
14 Stench
15 Darling one
16 Otherwise
17 Titular animated character whose theme music is by Henry Mancini
19 Place for a ponytail
20 Add, as an extra perk
21 Indian and Arctic
23 Baseball great Mel
24 Cereal mascot who says “They’re gr-rreat!”
29 Like a famed piper
31 Winning tictac-toe line, when player X isn’t paying attention
32 All together
33 Barely manage
36 Certain sib
38 Triumphed
39 Fictional feline from Japan … or how one might greet
17-, 24-, 54- or 65-Across
42 Yard cover
45 Wooden part of a railroad track
46 Animal with a long, sticky tongue
50 ___ Gay (W.W. II plane)
52 Song refrain syllable
53 There’s no place like it
54 Oz resident lacking in courage
59 Jenna Fischer’s role on “The Office”
60 Negotiator’s refusal
61 Toy item set up to be toppled
63 Cried
65 Lewis Carroll character with a disembodied smile
68 Hoppy beers, in brief
69 Duke Ellington’s “Take the ___”
70 Partner
71 London art museum
72 Body parts that might be “bumped”
73 Stadium cries
DOWN
1 Shaggy Beatles hairdos
2 Inane
3 Under-thebed resident, in a child’s imagination
4 Peeves
5 Middle of many German names
6 Choose
7 Old Apple picture-editing app
8 Freeloader
9 “___ Grows in Brooklyn”
10 Pickleball relative
11 Scottish city on the River Clyde
12 Web connection letters
13 Around 2%-3%, for a customer using a credit card
15 Hand: Sp. 18 Avocado’s center
22 Just one tiny bite
25 Like the gases argon and xenon
26 Cellist ___ Ma
27 Ambient music trailblazer Brian 28 Stimpy’s pal in cartoons
30 Morse code “morsel”
34 Old explosive device used to breach castle walls
35 Retired QB Manning
36 Mount that Moses mounted
37 Hairy cousin in “The Addams Family”
40 Philosopher Marx
41 “___, sure, you betcha!” (classic Minnesotan expression)
42 Fraction of a min.
43 Artist/activist Yoko
44 Thoroughly memorized
47 Buzzworthy, say
48 Flow (from)
49 Broadcasts not done in a studio
51 Taoism founder
52 1840s White House family
55 Common afterdinner coffee preference
56 Christine of “Chicago Hope”
57 Norse god of wisdom and war
58 Neither’s partner
62 Note “to all staff”
63 Cleverness
64 Energymonitoring org.
66 Ordeal for many H.S. seniors
67 What’s-___-face