The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ALEX ROSEN ACROSS

1 Fuel efficiency

letters

4 They may join in a

circle

8 Big-box hardware

chain

13 “That’s it!”

14 Model Campbell 16 Cricket fields and badminton racket heads, for two 17 Punishes 19 Interrupt ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue 20 Aptly named ski

town in Utah 21 Stop the clock 23 Compact disc? 25 Hot spot in the

afternoon, say 26 I.C.U. specialists 29 Backed financially 31 Prep for surgery ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue 34 Multiple of one? 36 City whose name is Siouan for “good place to dig potatoes” 37 Primitive kind of

diet

41 Subject of job offer

negotiations 43 They get high twice

a day

44 Actress Munn 46 One of Alcott’s

Little Women 48 Workplace with no

commute

50 Leave ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue 55 Constellation next

to Ursa Major 56 Prefix with

skeleton 58 Hagia ___ (World Heritage Site in Istanbul) 59 Concession stand

morsel

63 One of the pounds

in a pound cake 64 Brazenly

disregarding 66 Flail at home plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue 68 “Heaven forbid!” 69 Pledge drive bags 70 Gold in them thar

hills, e.g. 71 Promise

72 Home to the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas 73 Retreat

DOWN

1 Sophisticated

ladies

2 Queen Elizabeth’s

husband

3 Prefix with -pod 4 Alex and ___

(jewelry brand) 5 Affiliated group of M.C.s, as for Death Row Records

6 Rum mixer

7 Refine, in a way 8 Plot points? 9 Fallopian tube

traveler 10 Something to sleep

on with no springs 11 Country’s ___

Young Band

12 Only four-ninths of it is usually shown: Abbr.

15 Lands in the ocean 18 Media journalist

David

22 It’s said to be “the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to belittle”

24 Holy Roman emperor beginning in 973

27 Quickly heat up, in

a way 28 Yellow Pages section after “Sound Systems” 30 Dramatic tango

move

32 Abstract Expressionist Mark

33 News inits. since

1958

35 Snag

37 Four-time Hugo Award winner Frederik

38 Potted ornamental 39 Prom night

booking

40 Biblical progenitor 42 “And ___ …” 45 Super-duper 47 Better prepared,

perhaps

49 Just be oneself 51 Sport in which you could use some pointers? 52 “Great to hear!” 53 Reckon

54 Secure

57 In first place 60 Psychoanalyst Freud, daughter of Sigmund

61 Marty Feldman’s role in “Young Frankenstein” 62 Big name in Art

Deco

64 N.F.L. threepointers: Abbr. 65 Temperature

extreme

67 Sch. 50 miles west

of 36-Across