The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Bind

4 It’s not much work 7 Short 10 Average name 13 Talk show medium 15 Quite an accomplishment 17 Señora Perón 18 Secret headquarters for Bruce Wayne 19 Not be oneself? 21 “I’ve heard everything I need to hear” 23 Relative of a haddock 25 Moon of Saturn named for a Titaness 26 Instant 27 Black-and-white predators 29 Martin ___, “London Fields” novelist 32 Comic strip title character who is Beetle Bailey’s sister 35 Winter D.C. setting

36 Quite an accomplishment 38 Do some underground exploring

40 Find an ideal compromise

43 Transitional zone between two biomes

44 Early Cuzco resident

45 Pull

46 End notes 47 Highland tongue 49 Aunt ___ of “Oklahoma!” 51 Estadio exclamation

53 Pie hole 55 Places where people may have the knives out for you, in brief 56 Classic tune often played by ice cream trucks 61 Adjust

62 Sport that is the key to interpreting the answers to 21-, 40- and 56-Across 66 Consist of

67 Get to 68 Temporarily inactive 69 “That really hurt!” 70 Waitress at Mel’s Diner

71 Magic 8 Ball response 72 Prefix with -phyte

DOWN

1 Snarky remark 2 Residents’ org.

3 Muscleman with a mohawk 4 Eponymous Dutch town 5 Subject of several Georges Seurat paintings 6 Doth proceed 7 Horror movie staple

8 Part of a parka 9 Winter season 10 Place for cold cuts 11 Like skating rinks, typically 12 Manners

14 Rock group from Sydney

16 Vets’ charges 20 Dish seasoned with saffron 22 Uncultivated tract

23 Bulk-purchase retailer

24 One who closely adheres to the Torah 28 Picked locks? 30 Some library catalog info, for short 31 Magellan, e.g. 33 Runs up, as expenses 34 Surfboard stabilizer 35 Higher-up 37 Golden ___ 39 Carrier that offers only kosher meals 41 Bibliographer’s phrase of inclusion 42 Levels

48 Something no single speaker provides 50 Menial 52 Certain B.S. holder: Abbr. 54 Cornered 56 Letter in the NATO alphabet 57 Prefix with -phyte 58 “What a long week!”

59 “___ is other people”: Sartre 60 Commands respect from 63 Swimming gold medalist Thorpe 64 Columbus-to-Cleveland dir. 65 Old Pontiac with a V8 engine