The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Ritzy

5 Like the caboose among all the cars on a train

9 “Perry ___” (classic legal drama)

14 Iams competitor

15 Regarding

16 Harden (to)

17 When the Allied invasion of Normandy was launched

18 “Movin’ On Up” and “I’ll Be There for You,” for two

20 123 ___ Street (Big Bird’s address)

22 Clear, as a diner’s table

23 Washington, D.C., baseball player, for short

24 Sound at the start of “gentle” and “giant”

27 Apply, as lotion

29 Window fixtures most used in the summer, for short

32 Kind of tide

33 “That’s ___ hadn’t heard!”

34 Board game in which pieces may be captured or crowned

36 Reply to “Who’s there?”

39 Not glossy, as a photo finish

40 Baby dog 42 Legitimate

43 Submission to a contest

44 Any “Jr.,” to his father

46 Rick’s love in “Casablanca”

48 Composer Stravinsky

49 1992’s “A Few Good ___”

50 Run up, as expenses

51 Brusque

53 Gerund suffix

54 Victoria Beckham ___ Adams

56 Pic taken at arm’s length

60 What draws recording artists to Nashville and jazz lovers to New Orleans

64 “___ Las Vegas” (1964 film starring 52-Down)

65 Customer’s routine order, with “the”

66 Big rig’s cargo

67 Cousins of 401(k)s

68 Cylindrical pasta

69 On the ___ (unfriendly) 70 Certain email folder

DOWN

1 Protective gear for in-line skaters

2 Ye ___ shoppe

3 Health resorts

4 Georgetown athletes

5 Charge for an overdue payment

6 Cigar residue

7 Office address abbr.

8 Mausoleum

9 Pageant whose hosts have included Bob Barker, Dick Clark and Steve Harvey

10 Year: Sp.

11 Main religion of Pakistan

12 Instrument heard at a ballpark

13 Where eggs are laid

19 Continental currency

21 Animal “relative” an astonished person may claim to be

25 Covering seen at a ballpark

26 Dashboardmounted navigator

28 Greek B’s

29 Zenith

30 Martial arts action star Jackie

31 What glows in the west at day’s end … or a hint to this puzzle’s sequence of shaded squares

35 PC shortcut for “copy”

37 Boxer Tyson

38 Biblical garden

41 It may be turned with a swipe on an e-reader

45 Scrumptious bits

47 War god who’s a foe of Wonder Woman

50 Occupied, as a lavatory

52 See 64-Across

53 “It’s my turn”

55 Rebounding sound

57 Pyromaniac’s obsession

58 “Ghostbusters” director Reitman

59 Toward the dawn

61 Actor McKellen

62 ___ de cologne

63 Acorn, for one