The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Sample collector 5 Banjo sound 10 Computer menu

heading 14 Hookup that may

get kinky? 15 Broadcaster 16 Soprano who ends up trapped in a vault

17 Leave out

18 “My name is …,”

e.g.

19 Automaker that went bankrupt in 2011

20 What intellectual

rivals engage in 23 Oktoberfest quaff 24 Munch Museum

locale

25 Electioninfluencing grp. 28 Like the Tower of Babel, in two ways

31 Arrogant

33 What chess has that bridge doesn’t

36 God of passion 37 “Theodore Roosevelt” or “Robert Louis Stevenson”

43 Lot calculation 44 Classic gas

brand

45 Fancy drinking

glass 48 Percussion instrument that’s also the name of a popular ringtone

53 End of a dean’s

address

54 Sign of inactivity 57 Untrustworthy

sort 58 Mid-19th-century Russian ruler described as “autocracy personified” 62 Initial stake 64 Get into some hot

water?

65 Work without ___ 66 See 68-Across 67 Edmonton athlete 68 With 66-Across, director’s cry … or hint to 20-, 37and 58-Across 69 Word after rock,

sea or table 70 Tons and tons 71 Pointillism

features

DOWN

1 Muscle ___, Ala. 2 Marsupial with distinctive cubeshaped droppings 3 Italian alpine

cheese

4 “That’s more like

it”

5 Comet feature 6 Rioja, for one 7 “Star Wars”

droid, familiarly 8 Spongy balls 9 Speaks brusquely 10 It’s right on the

map

11 Population beyond the homeland 12 Journalist Wells

or Tarbell 13 Coke’s first diet

soda

21 What many a U.S. state is named after

22 It comes with a

charge

26 Yours, in Arles 27 Dermatological

sac

29 Long time 30 “The world’s most valuable resource,” per The Economist 32 ’Neath’s

opposite 34 Record speed, for

short

35 Send to oblivion 37 “Scarborough

Fair” herb 38 J.Lo’s onetime

beau

39 Counterargument 40 Actress Gadot 41 Record label for D’Angelo or Doja Cat

42 Midsection 46 Long time 47 Engines with

oomph

49 Like some decorative wooden floors 50 Will, given a

chance

51 Most despicable 52 Dogs that were once samurai companions 55 ___ mail

56 Line on a spine 59 Last month in the U.S. government’s fiscal year: Abbr. 60 Mull, with “on” 61 Gendered

pronoun 62 Reactions to

adorableness 63 Food industry

lobby, in brief