NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dance at a Jewish wedding 5 Chemical that burns

9 Chevrolet muscle car

15 Home of Waikiki Beach 16 Capital of Italia 17 Brought (in), as a fish

18 Vittles

19 “What ___ goes!” (parent’s pronouncement) 20 Task to “run” 21 “Rush Hour” and “21 Jump Street” [Clinton] 24 Handle with ___ 25 Friends’ opposite 26 TV deputy of Mayberry [Bush 43] 30 Leave out

34 Kind of port on a computer, in brief 35 Zig or zag 36 Anticipate

38 Dines

40 The Buddha is often depicted meditating under it [Obama] 43 Numerical information 44 Windsurfing locale NE of Honolulu 46 “Superfruit” berry 48 Cousin of “Kapow!” 49 Boxer Spinks who upset Muhammad Ali 50 C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C,

e.g. [Biden] 53 Linguist Chomsky 55 Small amounts

56 What the starts of 21-, 26-, 40- and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues 63 Prayer beads 64 Shoe bottom 65 More than magnificent 68 Smitten

69 ___ of Arendelle (Disney queen) 70 Device that makes a TV “smart” 71 Combs to add volume, as a stylist might

72 Not the passive sort 73 Part of a stairway

DOWN

1 Go ___-wild 2 Means of propelling a boat

3 Baked dessert made with tart red stalks (and loads of sugar) 4 University that’s also a color

5 Really dry

6 Cloth used to cover a teapot, to Brits 7 Apple on a desktop 8 Respite from work 9 ___ brûlée (French custard) 10 Spray can mist 11 ___ Griffin Enterprises

12 Jai ___ 13 Actress Russo 14 Probability 22 Mosquito repellent ingredient 23 Author Edgar Allan ___

24 Like Friday attire in some offices 26 Play music in the subway, perhaps 27 Rhyming title character who plays the tuba in Cuba, in a Rudy Vallee song 28 Curly hairstyle, for short 29 1099-___ (bankissued tax form) 31 Plenty steamed 32 Stuck, with no way out

33 Sums

36 Orchard fruit 37 Identify

39 ___-mo

41 Howard’s best friend on “The Big Bang Theory” 42 “Green” prefix 45 Rattle

47 “What ___ be done?” 50 Founder of Communist China 51 Made smile 52 Basketball players, quaintly

54 “You got that right!” 56 Legal order 57 Sharpen

58 ___ Verde (locale of San Juan’s airport) 59 Tourist town in northern New Mexico

60 By oneself

61 “If all ___ fails …” 62 Letter starter 66 Prez with the pooch Heidi

67 Saucer go-with