The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Leader of the world’s smallest

nation (“An Essay on Man”) 5 Procedure fee

10 Loaded (“Diving Into the

Wreck”)

14 Actor Wilson

15 Opposite of mainstream 16 ___ breve (2/2 time) 17 Potentially insulting, for short 18 Prefix with meter, to a versifier 19 Junket

20 Kathmandu residents

22 Went effortlessly

24 Situation of intense conflict 25 Many a craft brew, informally 27 Restless

28 Volatile state of affairs 31 Press releases?

34 ___ Estby, Norwegian-born

U.S. suffragist

35 Meal starter, maybe

39 Sushi topper

40 Didn’t abstain

42 Inflation meas.

43 Cry of denial

45 Prod with a stick, say 47 Westminster Abbey section hinted at by this puzzle’s architecture

51 Secretly loops in, in a way 53 Big commotion

54 Major crop in Nigeria 57 Address to click

58 1990s hit with the line “keep

playing that song, all night” 60 Got the picture

61 Not cramped

63 Antitraffic org.

64 Prokaryotic model organism 66 “S.N.L.” alum Pedrad 67 Open about one’s sexuality,

say

68 Bass staff symbol

69 Drinking vessel that may have

a lid (“Sacred Emily”) 70 Device that might say “In two

miles …”

71 Coat put on when it’s cold?

(“Mending Wall”)

DOWN

1 Use a hammer on

(“In a Station of the Metro”) 2 One with a deed

3 Pig of children’s TV

4 Sets up tents

5 ___ Field (Shea Stadium

successor)

6 Not competitive

7 Summer hrs. in Sonoma 8 Freight in flight

9 Vintage

10 All-important numbers for TV

execs

11 Competitor’s concession 12 This puzzle has 78 of them 13 Able to weather difficult

conditions (“Channel Firing”) 21 Mekong Valley language 23 Abu Dhabi’s grp. 26 New Orleans N.B.A. team,

informally

29 Expression of befuddlement 30 Ikea founder Ingvar ___ 31 Nest egg letters 32 Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65 33 Not leave unattended 36 Aria, typically

37 “God Bless the ___” 38 Place to retire in a hurry? 40 Groundbreaker?

41 Ages and ages 44 Discouraging words 46 Critically important

48 Vegan cookout option 49 Occur in conversation 50 “Well, darn!”

51 Incinerates (“To a Mouse”) 52 Dubrovnik resident

55 Bucks, boars and bulls 56 Fleet-footed (“A Maypole”) 58 “How Firm a Foundation,” for

one

59 “Survivor” host Probst 62 Customizable Nintendo

avatar

65 “Proud Mary” band,

in brief