The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Twice over

7 Lush

10 “Mass in

B Minor” composer 14 “Doggone!” 15 Biblical companion of Moses

16 Sunburn aid 17 Tallowy

19 Face of a

clock

20 Fijian or Samoan,

e.g.

22 Dude

23 Concern for a

poll

26 Sign before

Virgo

27 Percy Bysshe

Shelley, for one 29 Place in office 32 Locales for speakers and honorees 33 Preceder of

“com”

34 Samuel Adams,

for one

36 Like all prime numbers besides one

37 Tawny

42 Kind of charger 43 Dinar : Iraq :: ___

: Chile

44 Like some minor-league baseball 46 Denounce

harshly

49 Flying horse of Greek legend

51 Check receiver 52 “I love,” long ago 54 Bug’s sensory

appendage 55 Colosseum

“hello” 56 Jackie Chan

police film 60 Money in

Oman

62 Twin bed,

perhaps

66 Film performer

Diggs 67 Surgery locales,

in brief 68 Surface

69 Son of Zeus 70 Many a dorm room, in a manner of speaking 71 “I’m busy!” … or, if read in four pieces, an aid in solving several clues here

DOWN

1 Federal vaccine agcy. 2 Wariest animal 3 End of an ___ 4 Sign up 5 Begins some evasive maneuvering 6 Series finale 7 Classic Alan Ladd film 8 Surpass

9 Shoe accessory 10 Diamond-selling Michael Jackson album

11 Excuses 12 Wrought

13 Serfs of olden

days 18 Long-handled

hammer 21 Driving nuisance 23 Four clubs, for

example

24 Close ___

(approach) 25 Concerning, in a

memo

28 Conn of “Grease” 30 Embarrasses 31 Leave alone 32 Use a divining

rod

35 House member,

in brief

38 Sound off? 39 Paper handed in

for school 40 Home in Havana 41 U-___ 45 Hieroglyphic

figure

46 Land of bygone

Peloponnesus 47 Wrote 48 Deckhand’s

response 50 Mini-program 52 In pieces

53 Like some

breakups 57 Causes of some

911 calls

58 Large urban area in Normandy, France

59 Odor: Prefix 61 Picasso’s “___ Demoiselles d’Avignon” 63 Flying fisher 64 Freudian “wit” 65 Parishioners’

place