The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0319

Across

1 Kids' guessing game

5 Spider's spot

8 Common car rentals

14 Trifling

15 Vein contents

16 Soldier's shoulder adornment

17 Parent dressed up at a pride parade, perhaps?

19 Booth alternative at a diner

20 "Slippery" tree

21 T.S.A. requirements

22 Vietnamese noodle soup

23 Cryptographer's creation

24 Some family reunion attendees

26 Choice between a haircut and manicure?

28 Achy

29 Word after black or before box

31 Llama habitat

32 Oklahoma city named for a Tennyson character

33 Org. with a lot of returns

34 Toward the rear

36 "Meet me under Big Ben"?

41 "___ bother?"

42 Prefix with -metric or -logic

43 Alan of "Bridge of Spies"

46 Musical based on a comic strip

50 Starchy tropical root

51 Erotica

52 "Continue with your routine, cheerleaders"?

55 Milk curdler in cheesemaking

57 Shopper's aid

58 Kind of PC port

59 Low mil. rank

60 Lentils, on an Indian menu

61 Sticks (to)

63 Game break … or a hint to interpreting the first parts of 17-, 26-, 36-, and 52-Across?

65 Come back in

66 Savings for the golden yrs.

67 Hershey toffee bar

68 Good day for a hunt

69 Bear's lair

70 Farm enclosures

Down

1 Gargantuan

2 Marine mammal that barks

3 Tender cut of beef

4 Strong desire

5 Skilled writer, say

6 Slices of history

7 Implore

8 Wild animal's trail

9 Thirst quencher in Québec

10 Scottish king murdered by Macbeth

11 "Curiously strong" mint

12 Part of a record player or pine tree

13 What an accent mark indicates

16 Reverberation

18 Go kaput

22 Capitol wheeler-dealer, informally

25 Give up

26 Chef's creation

27 Alliance that Ukraine seeks to join, in brief

30 Highbrow

34 Maker of Aspire laptops

35 Architectural diagram

37 Bowls over

38 "Holy cow!"

39 Crunch of cereal?

40Yukon gold rush site

44 "You wish!"

45 Features of bucks, but not does

46 Shining brightly

47 "I'm completely at a loss"

48 Eats between meals

49 Purpose

50 Keyboard key next to Q

53 The "Q" in L.G.B.T.Q.

54 Cold War power, for short

56 Pointy-eared being

59 Give a hoot

62 Highlighted path on Google Maps: Abbr.

63 Kept out of sight

64 Recipe meas.