The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Cracked a bit 5 Gadget shaped like its first letter

10 Minor dust-up 14 Pixar film that premiered in Mexico 15 Conference

group 16 Keepeth

17 Fried Hanukkah

treat

19 Not

bamboozled by 20 Watch brand featured in James Bond films

21 “Do or die”

time

22 The one over

here 23 Parapsychology

research subj. 25 Apollo command module, for one

27 Thunder, but

not Lightning 31 One doing

menial work 32 100%

33 One adorns the Statue of Liberty 36 Rama and

Krishna, e.g. 38 Home of Whitman College

43 “See ya!” 44 What chickenpox can cause

45 Before time 46 “Butt out!,”

briefly 48 Theater : usher :: restaurant : ___

51 Fruity loaf with

a moist texture 55 Trident-shaped

letter 56 Soprano’s costar? 57 Synthetic 59 Bank security

option?

63 Got even with 64 Recover … or what 17-, 25-, 38- and 51-Across do? 66 French 101

verb

67 Zany action 68 Natural sunburn soother

69 Meh

70 Bumps into 71 Tear up

Down

1 AA

2 “What a ___!” 3 Berry from

Brazil

4 Zoom

5 H&R Block worker, for short

6 Org. in

“Die Hard” 7 Core of an alkaline battery

8 U, V or W, on the periodic table 9 Exaggerate for

effect

10 Made like a

shark?

11 One seeking

change 12 Unfinished

story?

13 The ones over

there

18 Facial feature missing from many emojis 24 Big ___, nickname for slugger David Ortiz 26 Sonic the Hedgehog creator 27 Photographer

Goldin

28 Group of voters 29 Devices that work by comparing air pressures 30 Mineralogical

eponym

34 Key used to get

out, not in 35 Polite term of

address 37 Action under a

File menu 39 Sporting event profiled in the 2014 documentary “Queens & Cowboys” 40 Gaming novice,

slangily 41 Finish, with

“up”

42 Get unionized? 47 Former pro wrestling star ___ Bigelow 49 Place to be

marooned 50 Accessory clipped to a dress shirt 51 Some answers on history exams 52 Colleague of Ginsburg and Roberts

53 0% of the

population 54 Not quite

right?

58 Work with

needles

60 Glen 61 Monopoly

subj. 62 Scraped (out) 65 Keeps posted,

in a way