The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Polio vaccine developer Salk

6 The “S” of S.U.V. 11 Glasgow gal

15 Get in touch with 16 Mistake

17 From the start 18 Connected set of

rooms in a hotel 19 Frank ___, Al Capone

henchman

20 “Veni, ___, vici” 21 International competition for countries that boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics [Texas]

24 “Quite true” 25 Edmonton’s hockey

team

26 Theme of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Do the Right Thing” 29 Jazzy Fitzgerald 30 Sphere

31 451/2-carat gem at the National Museum of Natural History [Rhode Island]

38 Time in Boston when

it’s midnight in Austin 41 Impose, as a tax 42 Shopping binge 43 QB’s downfield throw

[Wisconsin]

46 Michael of “S.N.L.” 47 ___-Ball (carnival

attraction)

48 Corsage flower 51 Growth on a tree 54 Place for tugboats 57 Companies that have big market shares [Utah]

61 Drug cop

62 Helped out 63 Preliminary races 65 Furry critter in “Return of the Jedi” 66 Vehicle with 18 tyres,

maybe

67 Sleep problem

68 Pols with a donkey

party logo

69 & 70 What the first word of each long Across answer is vis-àvis the bracketed place in its clue

DOWN

1 Upper-class members:

Abbr.

2 “Why do the French have only one egg for breakfast? Because one egg is an ___”

(old joke)

3 Brand to use “if you dare wear short shorts”

4 When Hamlet gives his “To be, or not to be” soliloquy

5 500 things in a ream 6 Transmits

7 Strait-laced person 8 Big name in lawn care 9 Indian flatbread 10 North African city in the lyrics to the “Marines’ Hymn”

11 Blobby light popular

in the 1960s-’70s 12 Japanese cartoon style 13 Meal with the Four

Questions

14 ___ Army knife 22 “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of ___” (Robert C. O’Brien children’s book)

23 Large lizards of the

Southwest

26 Upper part of the

mouth

27 Florence’s river 28 Person who might say

“10-4, good buddy” 29 “Grand” brand of ice

cream

32 Ye ___ Shoppe 33 Liveliness

34 Longoria of “Desperate Housewives” 35 Theater sect. near the

stage

36 Fruity soda brand 37 Homeowner’s document

39 Phrase akin to “Darn it

all!”

40 Manufactures

44 Cars for vacationers 45 Japanese noodles 49 Hillary ___ Clinton 50 Sleazeball

51 Queued (up)

52 Really impressed

53 PC spinner 54 Freshwater polyp 55 Paying attention 56 Change from artificial blond back to brunet, say

58 Prison uprising 59 Rave’s partner 60 “Leave as is,” to a

proofreader

64 ___ Paulo, Brazil