The New York Times Crossword

1 Pit-of-the-stomach feeling

5 Fastidious to a fault

9 Wedding walkways

14 Literary heroine Jane

15 Entertainment district in

London’s West End

16 Watts of “Mulholland

Drive”

17 Seat on a ship

19 Robust brew

20 Get through to

21 Pool of money

23 Start to scream or

shout?

26 Sing like Tom Waits

28 Phrased

32 “The missing link”

34 Word with raising or

splitting

36 Commercial lead-in to

Clean

37 Domesticated

38 Fit of wild emotion

40 Natalie Wood’s role in

1961’s “West Side Story”

41 Foundation

42 Capitol Hill staffers

43 Bet the family farm, so

to speak

45 Instrument found in a

post office or grocery

46 Reddit Q& A

47 Major provider of

scholarships, in brief

48 Look through a window,

say

49 Like bananas and banana

slugs

51 Orangish-brown gem 53 Otolaryngologist,

familiarly

54 Make fun of

56 Error’s counterpart

58 Components of a rosary

61 More often than not

66 More than enough

67 We: Fr.

68 Big Ten school

69 Holiday dependent on the lunisolar calendar 70 [Ignore that edit]

71 Train tracks

DOWN

1 With 2-Down, money

saving flight option, often

2 See 1-Down

3 Certain line segment

4 Hockey feint

5 Receptacle near a firepit

6 ___ Ark

7 Offering on a sushi menu

8 Mayor Lightfoot of

Chicago

9 Yet to come

10 Mythological being with a

horse’s tail

11 Facilities in England

12 Prey for a dingo

13 Command that might

precede “Shake!”

18 One might have the disclaimer “Professional driver on closed course. Do not attempt.”

22 Dipsticks

23 Erode

24 “Stop! I’ve heard quite

enough!” 25 Formative

27 Science that deals with the phenomenon spelled out by 10 missing letters in this puzzle

29 “Is it worth the risk?”

30 Do great at

31 ___ collar (iconic Ruth Bader Ginsburg neckwear at the Smithsonian)

33 Part of a coconut that

can be shredded

35 Clarification words for a

speller

38 “Freeze!”

39 Along with lentils, one of the two main ingredients in idli

41 Exposed, as a cover

44 One giving a wake-up

call

45 Hyundai Sonata, for one

48 Certain ecclesiastic

50 Punch bowl go-with

52 Quibble

55 Some antique

collectibles

57 Princess whose brother

is not a prince

58 Meadow call

59 Ambulance letters

60 Well-suited

62 “Kidding!”

63 Father of une princesse

64 Saddler’s tool

65 ___ Américas