The 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-r-reat!”

29 Like a famed piper

31 Winning tic-tac-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-the-bed 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 after-dinner 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 Energy-monitoring org. 66 Ordeal for many

H.S. seniors 67 What’s-___-face