The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Accelerated path

of advancement

5 Ballot with votes

for multiple parties

10 Cherish

14 ___ manual

15 Pre-nursing

homes?

16 Female friend, in

French

17 Nothin’

18 Potter’s area of

expertise

19 Kind of bean in

succotash

20 Special talents

22 Inquire about the

health of

24 Product once advertised with the slogan “Everything you love about coffee without everything you don’t”

25 What an office computer whiz might provide, for short

26 Last Julio-claudian

emperor

28 Promotion for a new credit account, maybe

32 Stimulating drug,

informally

35 Bit of traditional

Polynesian attire

37 Mixed drink mixer

38 Question often preceded by “But …”

Stayed in shape Big bundle

40 43

44 Novelist Wharton

46 Eroded, with

“away”

47 Ultra-rapid transit

options

50 Orcinus ___

(marine species)

51 Bit of cowhand’s

gear

53 Game that everyone but one person barely loses?

58 Many North

Africans

61 “Interesting idea,

but … huh-uh”

62 Kick back

63 “OK, that’s it for

me!”

65 Crash, with “out”

66 Prefix with thesis

67 Silently

acknowledge

68 Toon with yellow

fur

69 U.K. network

moniker, with “the”

70 Smirnoff competitor, familiarly

71 One with an eye on

the future?

DOWN

1 Low states

2 Downward dog in

yoga, e.g.

3 Hatchback

alternative

4 –

5 Totals

6 Org. that may be involved in field trip planning

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0117

7 Musical passages with smooth, connected notes

8 Kind of terrier

9 –

10 1:30 or 2:30, e.g.

11 Drop

12 Shade of green

13 –

21 Mother in the Hundred Acre Wood

23 Sierra Nevada, e.g.

25 Really ticked off

27 What you might do on the side of caution

29 Two-seater,

perhaps

30 Toolbar heading

31 –

32 ___ Xtra (soft

drink)

33 Biblical twin

34 –

36 –

39 Bend the truth, say

41 When doubled,

“You get the idea”

42 Adolescence, for

one

45 “Copy me”

48 You might play

something by this

49 –

52 Expensive bar

54 Section of

Chipotle’s menu

55 _ _ _ Island

56 Bellybutton type,

informally

57 –

58 Big slice

59 Top-notch

60 “I am free of all prejudices. I ___ everyone equally”: W. C. Fields

61 Subject of a hairy

hoax

64 Kilmer of Batman

fame