The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Home to Santa’s workshop

5 Popular outdoor clothing brand, with “The” 9 Minnesota N.H.L. team from 1967 to 1993

14 Ruler over Valhalla 15 As dumb as ___ of

rocks

16 American of Japanese

origin

17 Mandatory: Abbr. 18 Gusto

19 Change for the better 20 Fraternity “T”

21 Dog that needs a

muzzle, say

22 Novelist Charles with an appropriate surname

23 Volunteer’s phrase 25 Largest known asteroid

27 Giving over

29 Part of the brainstem 33 How most movies are released after theatrical runs

34 Send off, as an online

order

36 Remunerates

37 What Friday has,

unlike any other day? 38 Dividing line

41 Subj. for Bill Nye 42 Candlemaking supply 44 Like Christmas sweaters, stereotypically 45 Prefix with party or

venous

47 Queen in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 49 ___ Way (Roman road) 50 Calf-length pants style 52 Iowa’s largest export 53 Language group of

central Africa

56 Harsh

58 Anarchist’s aversion 61 Eponymous Dr. Alzheimer

62 Young muchacho 63 New York’s ___ Field 64 Scrabble 1-pointer (but a Words With Friends 2-pointer)

65 Years on the Yucatán 66 In a short while 67 Country hosting the

2018 Winter Olympics 68 Lefties

69 Notre Dame setting

DOWN

1 Affluent Connecticut

town

2 Theaters of antiquity 3 Food restriction before and after surgery, maybe

4 Demise

5 Disconcerting

6 Aid in mischief

7 Sine’s reciprocal, in

trig

8 Hand or foot

9 Caught

10 “Pencils down!”

11 Like Edward Lear’s

Owl and Pussycat 12 Tear apart

13 U.N.’s location in

Manhattan 21 Burglary, in police

shorthand

24 Kind of engineer:

Abbr.

26 Certain tow job 27 Interstate 5’s locale 28 Listless feeling 30 Bringing up the rear 31 Stretchy sportswear

material

32 Resident of China or Japan, but not India or Iran

34 Pea with a thick,

rounded pod 35 Chess-playing movie

villain

39 Bon mot

40 Make fun of

43 Capable of being

touched

46 Network with news at

the top of each hour 48 Revulsion

49 Bridging

51 1986 rock autobiography

53 Area of longtime

contention

54 Choir part

55 Pinot ___

57 Plenty, once

59 Huge amounts 60 Eurus, in Greek mythology

63 One waiting at the

airport?