The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 4

Talk, talk, talk

_ _ _ Henie, 10-time world champion skater

9 Desk jarful

13 Kind of palm

15 Engine sound

16 “You sure about

that?”

17 *Cause of irritated

eyes

19 Feeling the effects of a tough workout, say

20 One out of 100:

Abbr.

21 Inits. of two schools in the Missouri Valley Conference

22 Catch dead to

rights

23 Alleviated

26 *Many lovers, e.g.

28 How something

can be torn

30 Hoppy medium?

31 Top 40 genre

32 Ginormous

35 Company where workers may sleep on the job

38 *Mayim of

entertainment

42 Office newbie

43 Pop

44 Card game similar

to Crazy Eights

45 Common name starter in 31-Across Drew forcibly (from)

46

49 *Way down in the

nether regions

54 Word said while

pointing

55 From memory only

56 D-backs, on

scoreboards

57 Try to see?

58 Part of a Florida

flock

59 *Book of Mary

64 “Whip It” band

65 Guiding principles

66 Flower girl?

67 Steinbeck title

ender

68 “Swell!”

69 Basic linear expression with a hint to answering the five starred clues in this puzzle

DOWN

1 Quick blow

2 Subject of a landmark 2012 Supreme Court decision, for short

3 Crumpled mass

4 Reindeer in

“Frozen”

5 Italian time unit

6 Finnish tech giant

7 Medieval

competition

8 Boost

9 One of three for a

grand

10 Good thing to map out before a risky endeavor

11 Nothing: Lat.

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12 Editor’s concern

14 “A Doll’s House”

playwright

18 Former “S.N.L.”

comic Chris

23 Third in a group of

eight

24 Japanese beer

25 Like an accomplishment worthy of Guinness

26 Groups of hands

27 Steinbeck title

starter

29 Alternative genre

33 Non-___ (label on some organic foods)

34 “September 1,

1939” poet

36 Skin-care product

37 Battery part

39 Eagerly takes

advantage of

40 Lead-in to port or

pad

41 Instrument notably featured in George Michael’s 1984 hit “Careless Whisper”

47 On

48 “Hallelujah!”

singers

49 One joining a

union?

50 Like 48-Down

members, often

51 Full of cargo

52 Hopping mad

53 Mohammed’s

third wife

57 City sometimes called “The Buckle of the Bible Belt”

60 Tool set

61 Mess (with)

62 How peers should

be treated

63 Villainous Luthor