The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Place underneath

one’s seat, say 5 “Dancing Queen”

group

9 Barely open, as a door 13 “Ingredient” in molten chocolate cake 14 Decorated parade

vehicle

15 Aloe ___

16 Pinnacle

17 Cuban dance

18 Sign for the superstitious

19 Message on a giant

foam finger

22 Chem. or biol.

23 ___ of the tongue 24 Falsehood

27 Big jerk

30 “The Addams Family”

cousin

32 Prayer endings

34 To the ___ degree 35 1999 rom-com with Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook 39 Release, as a new

album

41 Less than 90°, as an

angle

42 “Livin’ la ___ Loca” 43 “Anything Goes” song 46 Big California paper,

for short

47 Go in

48 Orangutan, e.g. 49 Homophone of 24Across 50 ___ Fridays

51 Target of a scratch 55 Grp. that might give you a hand on the shoulder? 57 Kellogg’s Frosted

Flakes slogan 63 Equestrian’s “Stop!” 65 Turned white 66 ___-pads (hygiene

product)

67 Lug along

68 Lesser of two ___ 69 Norway’s capital 70 Latch ___ (seize) 71 Not-safe-for-work

transmission 72 Some whiskeys

DOWN

1 Cole ___

2 Alternative to glue 3 Above

4 Grows, as the moon 5 Grad

6 Woefully underperforms

7 Site of a biblical tower 8 Company that

launched Pong 9 Stratford-upon-___ 10 Award-winning sports journalist who went from ESPN to The Atlantic

11 Exist

12 Went for office 14 Signature accessory of

Carmen Miranda 20 TV drama with spinoffs set in Los Angeles and New Orleans

21 Down Under gemstone

25 24 hours from now 26 Subject of a will 27 “Still &” 28 Well-muscled 29 “Don’t hesitate to say

what you want” 31 Silicon Valley industry 33 Cable channel that brought the world “Beavis and Butthead”

36 Take to court

37 Intro to boy or girl 38 Animals with spots 40 ___-K (early learning) 44 Lake with a namesake

canal

45 Prickly ___ (variety of

cactus)

52 Goes tap-tap-tap on a

keyboard

53 Yearn for

54 DNA shape

56 Knight’s protection 58 Angel’s headwear 59 Hanukkah coins 60 “No sweat!” 61 Spinning part of a car 62 Spanish uncles 63 “Which person?” 64 ___ Solo of “Star

Wars”