The New York Times

1 Supporting timber in home construction 6 Jazz genre 11 Popular sandwich, for short 14 Breathing problem for a sleeper 15 Solo 16 Gardening tool 17 2016 live-action Disney film with an animated title character 19 Yellow ball in pool 20 Ambient musician Brian

21 1982 film named after a computer program 22 Handle the food for, as a party 24 Noggin 25 So-called “City of a Thousand Minarets” 27 Where John Milton and John Oliver studied at Cambridge 32 Bumpkin 33 Corrida cry 34 Where clothing may come apart 36 Prefix with -mester 37 Abandon … or two words often seen next to the starts of 17-, 27-, 47- and 60-Across

41 Greenpeace, e.g., for short 42 Dame of fame 44 Golfer Michelle 45 Was meddlesome 47 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel about a wealthobsessed farm family

51 “The gymnasium of the mind,” per Pascal 52 Troubles 53 Actress Bara of 1917’s “Cleopatra” 55 Actress Polo of TV’s “The Fosters” 56 Ticked off 59 Word after electric or elevator 60 Notorious cinematic flop of 1980

64 “My man”

65 Desi of old TV 66 Claw 67 “Amen!”

68 A, B or C, or first, second or third 69 Was out

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1 Mocking remark

2 U.S. ___

3 Take ___ account 4 “Now do you believe me?” 5 Suggests, flavorwise

6 Certain nobles 7 Gusto

8 Get stuck, with “down” 9 Vocalist heard on the Beatles’ “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” 10 Miniature golf course freebie 11 Suitable for framing? 12 Uneaten part of an entree, maybe 13 Catcall 18 “Confound it!” 23 Bellicose deity 24 Paragraph in a playbill, maybe 25 What a fountain may provide 26 Supermodel Wek

27 Suffix meaning “cell”

28 Big finish? 29 Heavyweight at a zoo 30 Subdivision in group theory 31 Zealous

35 À la ___ 38 Symbols of wisdom 39 Reformer Jacob who wrote “How the Other Half Lives” 40 Certain Olympic athletes since 1900 43 Condition that Adderall may be prescribed for, in brief

46 Dorm leaders, in brief 48 Enemy of Popeye 49 Pluck, as eyebrow hairs 50 Bereft, old-style 53 Frozen dessert chain

54 Cocky character in a fable 55 Infomercial, e.g. 56 Like every secretary of state until 1997

57 On

58 Job for a body shop

61 Zig when one should zag, say 62 Get ___ on (ace) 63 Lass

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