NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Runs recreationally 5 Some hotel room amenities

10 The “Toreador Song,” for one

14 From the top

15 Fulfill mundane but necessary responsibilities, in modern lingo

16 Sift (through) 17 Software prototype 18 Vessels with large containers

20 Does pranks with rolls, informally 22 Connecticut Ivy Leaguer

23 Nail polish brand 25 Pursue romantically 28 Actor/comedian Lil ___ Howery

29 Talking item in Dora the Explorer’s backpack 32 Oceanfront district of Los Angeles 35 Manhattan neighborhood 37 Front-page mergers and acquisitions, e.g. 39 Grayish 40 Skateboarding jump 41 Neckwear that smells nice 42 Photographer Adams

43 Difficult, unfun chore 44 Investment guide calculation

46 Props for presentations 49 Most reptilian, in a way

50 “Spring forward” or “fall back” letters 51 Electrical unit with a Greek letter symbol 53 Look at

54 Beings not (yet) proven to exist 55 Thundering

57 Trinity member 59 Exclamation point inside a yellow triangle, for one 64 “Only Murders in the Building” airer 67 Nobel laureate Wiesel

68 Longtime Jay Silverheels role 69 Ankh-carrying goddess

70 71 & 72 Commits perjury … or what can be found four times in this puzzle

DOWN

1 Sharp punch

2 “!” keymate 3 Scramming 4 Exchange

5 ___ fly

6 Org. promoting canine care

7 Spleen

8 “Enigma Variations” composer

9 Lifted

10 Be sore

11 Pépin le Bref, par exemple 12 Troublesome sort 13 Muscles tightened by planking, in brief 19 Stprage tower 21 Greta Garbo, by birth 23 Diffused gradually 24 Saffron-flavored dishes 26 Horatian creation 27 Big name in brushes 29 Beauty pageant founded in 1959 as a mail-in photo contest

30 One who doesn’t

have a prayer? 31 Alternatives to street

parking

33 Negro leagues great

Satchel

34 Butterlike spreads 36 Hawaiian island shaped like an apostrophe 38 Considering the fact

that

42 Setting for many van

Gogh works

45 It’ll dawn on you 47 Folk stories 48 Up-start?

52 Worker with a trowel 55 A long, long time 56 Food part that’s

usually not eaten 58 Home of Denison

University

59 Tierra ___ Fuego 60 Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year in 1974 (10 years after he first became world champion) 61 German “never” 62 Bell Atlantic merger

partner of 2000 63 Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed

65 Buzzing … or, in a different sense, buzzed

66 Do a wedding task,

informally