The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Rounds out, as an event 5 Sound of a cake hitting the

floor, frosting first

10 Gush (over), as to gain favor 14 Plant watcher, for short 15 Reluctant

16 Designer Saab

17 Wins the Hunger Games, e.g. 19 Young newts

20 Annual pageant winner

21 –

22 Maker of Z-cars, once 23 Hoover rival

25 Online handle

28 Like the “5” of “5 & 10” 33 Maine university town 34 Repellent spray

37 Coleridge’s “The ___ Harp” 39 One requested by disgruntled

customers: Abbr.

40 Bard’s “before”

41 See 30-Down

42 Common street name in

suburbia

43 Fish with a long snout 44 Mexico has 31 of these 45 “The Sleep of Reason

Produces Monsters” artist 46 Go haywire

48 Have as a tenant

50 One of the Eternals, in Marvel

comics

52 Insurance giant acquired by

CVS in 2018

56 Followers of the largest

denomination of Islam 57 Labor group for athletes

62 – 63 Top-shelf

64 Supersharp

66 Actress Kunis of “Family Guy” 67 “Thumbs up from me!” 68 Sea eagle

69 Rustic verse

70 Steady looks

71 Wine category

DOWN

1 Classic pink cocktail

2 Up and about

3 Terrible twos, e.g. 4 Surrenders

5 Ukrainian, for one 6 Neighbor of a Ukrainian 7 Hideout

8 Off-roaders, for short

9 Grp. established by 1992’s

Maastricht Treaty

10 Bottom ___

11 Car whose logo features a

coiled green serpent 12 With full knowledge 13 Puccini aria popularized by

Pavarotti

18 “Only joking!,” to a texter 24 –

26 Acoustic measure 27 –

29 Result of a rift

30 With 41-Across, a celestial event … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle 31 Top-shelf

32 What avocados don’t do until

they’re picked

34 Catastrophic weather event potentially caused by a meteor crash

35 Spiderlike

36 “Yes, of course”

38 Brief second?

41 Bruins legend, to fans 45 Receives an anesthetic,

perhaps

47 Open, as a tomb

49 Button on a scale

51 Herb unit

53 Un gato grande 54 Incessantly

55 Much of Chile

58 ___ land

59 Ansari of “Master of None” 60 Harness

61 You are, in Spanish

63 –

65 –