NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Timbuktu’s country 5 Things baseball uniforms and toy pistols have

9 Foe in “Jack and the Beanstalk”

14 “Sign me up!”

15 Put on the payroll 16 Put a stop to 17 *Many a Silicon Valley business 20 Televangelist Joel 21 Automotive brand with an oval logo 22 Some HDTVS 23 Africa’s most populous city (21+ million)

25 Biased against seniors

27 Doctors making deliveries, in brief 30 California ___ (state flag words) 32 Sweet’s counterpart 34 Hatcher of “Desperate Housewives” 35 Dandy 39 *Devastating event in a real estate bust 42 Automotive brand with an oval logo 43 South American palm cultivated for its fruit

44 Flair

45 Royal spouses 48 Records in jackets, in brief

49 Actress Anderson 52 Passing remarks? 54 Tennis score favoring the server 55 Toll hwy.

57 Classic 1980s space warfare video game

61 *Question suggesting “That just about sums things up” 64 Eminent 65 Sportscaster Andrews 66 Tony-winning musical based on Fellini’s “8 1/2” 67 Battle reminders 68 “Hey, over here!” 69 Elements in a comic’s repertoire

DOWN

1 Sushi restaurant soup

2 “Famous” cookie maker

3 Elevator, in England 4 Info from a spy 5 Replace with

6 Tire need

7 *Highly stressful situations, metaphorically 8 Quakers, for one 9 “Columbia, the ___ of the Ocean” 10 *Like a guesstimate, by nature

11 Counters with beads

12 Grannies

13 Meeting at a no-tell motel, say 18 Potential tire

trouble

19 October birthstone 24 “The Bartered Bride” and “The Marriage of Figaro” 26 Heisman winner

Torretta 27 Workplace

inspecting org. 28 Bust’s counterpart 29 Wrestler in a

mawashi

31 Tummy soother 33 Community sports facility … or a hint to the answers to the five starred clues 36 Like the Rose Bowl, with 92,542 spectators 37 Mouth, slangily 38 Desires

40 April 1 target 41 Person in a lawsuit 46 Alliance formed in

April 1949

47 Ollie’s partner in old

comedy

49 Half the pieces in a

chess set 50 Formed for a particular purpose

51 Sporty Mazda

model

53 Singapore ___ 56 Get ready 58 Singapore setting 59 Squad 60 Supporting votes 62 Some essential

workers, for short 63 Prefix with gender