NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Small groups of conspirators 7 Charitable offerings of old

11 Sheepish utterance? 14 Catching some Z’s 15 Italy’s outline 16 Relative of an ostrich

17 Command for a soldier to relax 19 Post-disaster help, e.g.

20 Like a low, horizontal throw used by shortstops 21 Unhinge mentally 23 D.c.-based teachers’ union 24 One of the Kardashians 26 Pretends 27 Weekend comedy hit, in brief 29 Financially solvent 31 Passing craze 34 Snoopy’s breed 36 Spits rhymes, so to speak

39 Tableware for special guests 41 Classic car inits. 42 Melville’s “___ Budd” 43 Mafia chief

44 Fail to keep a promise

46 “The Spanish Tragedy” dramatist Thomas

47 Have as one’s residence

49 ___ room (play space)

51 Goes out of business 53 In the manner of 55 Blockhead 58 Bemoans, as a loss 60 42 weeks pregnant, e.g.

63 One of the Gershwin brothers 64 Betray … or a hint to what’s found in this puzzle’s shaded squares

66 Plastic used in piping, for short 67 Cookie once promoted with the line “Take a lick — you’ll love it” 68 Stock market purchases

69 State out loud 70 Take a breather 71 Ohio city on Lake Erie

DOWN

1 Mama ___ Elliot of 1960s folk

2 Sean who voiced the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Raphael

3 Ice skate part 4 Trojan hero in a Virgil epic

5 Yeats’s “___ and the Swan”

6 Glisten

7 “Honest” guy on a five

8 Trucker’s haul 9 White wine named for the European river valley where it’s produced 10 Sound upgrade from mono 11 Means to a goose laying golden eggs, in a fairy tale 12 Compañero

13 Poet W. H. ___

18 “I don’t need to

hear all that!” 22 PONG Quest

gaming company 25 Reddish purple 28 Org. overseeing

court battles 30 Drifting ice mass 31 U.S. TV regulator 32 “Now I see!” 33 Negotiator’s skill 35 Square footage 37 Thickness, as of

yarn

38 Name that’s hidden

in “Easy does it” 40 Assault on the ears 42 Helpful pollinator 44 Bring back to its

original condition 45 Most serious

48 One with a booth at

a flea market

50 Pen for horses on a

ranch 51 Promotional

snippets from a film 52 Caterpillar or

tadpole

54 Texter’s chortle 56 Be crazy about 57 Joined together by

heating

59 Hauls into court 61 Sound that

rebounds

62 Former Exxon

name 65 Nonhuman internet “account holder”