NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Afro-Cuban dance 6 Chief exec 10 Strained-at bug, in an

idiom 14 Crazy as ___ 15 Credits listing 16 Get in a lather 17 Complaints about a

Kentucky fort? 19 Hatchet man 20 Hearing range 21 No-goodnik 23 “Winter’s Bone”

heroine ___ Dolly 24 Hebrew letter before

nun 26 Soon, to a bard 27 Cohort of Athos 30 Party desirables 33 Moved like a

dragonfly 36 Place a levy on

pushpins? 38 Digger’s strike 39 Cause to topple 41 Mauna ___ 42 Security for smoked

salmon? 44 Paul of “Mad About

You” 46 “Specifically …” 47 Hasbro action figures 49 Severely reprimand,

with “out” 51 Kevin Bacon degree

count 52 “Take Me Bak ___”

(1972 Slade song) 55 Polar bear’s resting

spot 58 Bottom-line red ink 61 Mid 13th-century

year 62 Piles of old soul

records? 64 “My Way” lyricist 65 Eyelid malady 66 Catchall category 67 Classic computer game, or its island world 68 Gain from a quarterback sneak, perhaps 69 Nectar-yielding fruits

DOWN

1 Do some fall cleanup 2 ___ nerve (funny bone part) 3 “Sicko” documentarian 4 Prime spot at a theater 5 Hippie’s cross 6 For the time being 7 “Arabian Nights” menace 8 “Benevolent” order 9 Keebler cracker brand 10 Breakfast bar stuff 11 Say no to some pro

basketballers? 12 On the calm side 13 Okla., until 1907 18 Given to wanderlust 22 Where “K-I-S-S-I-N-G” occurs, as taunting kids say 25 Cell division 28 Double-check the

addition of 29 Discount, in store

names 31 ___-Ball (arcade game) 32 Despot until 1917 33 Dimwit 34 Suffix with buck 35 Critic Reed does major

damage? 37 Reproduces, in a way 40 U.P.S. delivery: Abbr. 43 Not be rumpled, say 45 Put in solitary 48 Born under a bad sign 50 Like the north sides of

some trees 53 Starbucks order 54 Glacial ridge 55 Mosque leader 56 Big Apple sch. 57 ___ James, singer

played by Beyoncé 59 ’Vette roof option 60 Ukr. and Lith., once 63 Firth of Clyde port