The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Something cut by a lapidary 4 Lineup at a truck stop 8 Stunned, in a way

13 There was much of it in Shakespeare

14 Head of Harpo Productions 16 Conscious

17 Cry of disgust

18 Relative of a raccoon 19 Many eyes are upon it, informally

20 & 22 Mid-20th-century giant in 59-/62-Across 24 Appear that way 26 Direction in España

27 Bag, in commercialese 30 Port in southern Italy 32 Secret knowledge 34 Counted toward the totality of 39 Turns (off)

40 Things exchanged between brides and grooms

41 Hit for 20-/22-Across (1969 or 1977)

43 About half of a regular soccer field

44 William and Mary, e.g. 46 Flag

48 Coffers

50 “Haughty Juno’s unrelenting ___”: Aeneid

51 Old TV knob abbr.

52 On

55 Adjusts one’s sight

59 & 62 See 20-Across 63 Shade of blue

65 Martin Luther King Jr. had one

67 Fill for a schooner

68 Actor who was People magazine’s 1992 Sexiest Man Alive 69 Cabinet department 70 ___ Arbor

71 Pastime for Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin

72 Tore

73 Soft component of fleece?

DOWN

1 Blunders

2 First woman to receive her own New York City ticker-tape parade (1926)

3 Native Arizonan

4 Moon or Mercury 5 N.Y.S.E. debut 6 Understand

7 Spoof

8 Secret spillers 9 Conscious

10 Thai dip

11 Squeeze (out) 12 German “the”

15 Duncan ___

21 Some clouds

23 Old film dog

25 Western city known as “Family City U.S.A.” 28 Bone cavities

29 Casey of “American Top 40” 31 Bit of bucolic verse 33 Country house 34 Small songbird

35 Where to find an American in Moscow?

36 1960s TV character who often said “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”

37 ___ Jima

38 First automaker to offer seatbelts as an option (1949)

42 Coin collector’s interest 45 Beans and rice

47 Like some glasses 49 Alphabet trio

53 Ford contemporary

54 Line on an auto shop invoice 56 One spared by God in a Bible story

57 Who wrote, in a classic children’s book, “It is hard to be brave … when you’re only a Very Small Animal” 58 Something that might be stolen while a crowd watches?

60 Supply for General Mills 61 Garner

63 G.O.P. grp.

64 Cry of awe

66 Disposed of, in a way