The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Cracked a bit 5 Gadget shaped like its first letter 10 Minor dust-up 14 Pixar film that premiered in Mexico 15 Conference

group

16 Keepeth

17 Fried Hanukkah

treat

19 Not bamboozled

by

20 Watch brand featured in James Bond films

21 “Do or die” time 22 The one over

here 23 Parapsychology

research subj. 25 Apollo command

module, for one 27 Thunder, but not

Lightning

31 One doing menial

work

32 100%

33 One adorns the

Statue of Liberty 36 Rama and

Krishna, e.g. 38 Home of

Whitman College 43 “See ya!” 44 What chickenpox

can cause 45 Before time 46 “Butt out!,”

briefly

48 Theater : usher :: restaurant : ___ 51 Fruity loaf with a moist texture 55 Trident-shaped

letter 56 Soprano’s co

star? 57 Synthetic 59 Bank security

option?

63 Got even with 64 Recover … or what 17-, 25-, 38- and 51-Across do? 66 French 101

verb

67 Zany action 68 Natural sunburn soother 69 Meh

70 Bumps into 71 Tear up

DOWN

1 AA

2 “What a ___!” 3 Berry from Brazil

4 Zoom

5 H&R Block worker, for short 6 Org. in “Die Hard”

7 Core of an alkaline battery 8 U, V or W, on the periodic table 9 Exaggerate for effect

10 Made like a shark?

11 One seeking change 12 Unfinished

story?

13 The ones over there 18 Facial feature missing from many emojis 24 Big ___, nickname for slugger David Ortiz

26 Sonic the Hedgehog creator 27 Photographer

Goldin

28 Group of voters 29 Devices that work by comparing air pressures 30 Mineralogical

eponym

34 Key used to get

out, not in 35 Polite term of

address

37 Action under a

File menu 39 Sporting event profiled in the 2014 documentary “Queens & Cowboys” 40 Gaming novice,

slangily

41 Finish, with “up” 42 Get unionized? 47 Former pro wrestling star ___ Bigelow 49 Place to be

marooned 50 Accessory clipped to a dress shirt 51 Some answers

on history exams 52 Colleague of Ginsburg and Roberts

53 0% of the

population 54 Not quite right? 58 Work with

needles

60 Glen

61 Monopoly subj. 62 Scraped (out) 65 Keeps posted, in

a way