NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Soothes

6 Aquarium buildup 11 Edmonton’s province: Abbr.

14 TV replay technique 15 Hold power, as a monarch 16 Neither’s partner 17 “Water Lilies” painter 19 Lab eggs

20 Rock concert blaster 21 Nerve cell part 22 Dust Bowl migrants 24 Beach toy with a handle

26 June, in the L.G.B.T.Q. movement

29 Pacific source of odd weather 31 Like the paths of satellites 32 Impressionist Edgar

33 Muslim pilgrim 35 Snoop (on) 36 Profited

40 Place for salt on a

margarita glass 43 Yale students 44 Opposite of losses 48 Simultaneously 51 Negative about 52 Computer programmer, disparagingly 55 Brussels-based defense grp. 56 Revered one in a tribe 57 Indian bread 59 “Fancy that!” 60 Public health org. 61 Personal struggles … or, literally, features of 17-, 26-, 36and 52-Across 65 Sailors’ yeses 66 Deliberately hurtful 67 French thanks 68 “Fuhgeddaboutit!” 69 At one’s fingertips 70 Poet Nash

DOWN

1 Flew the coop

2 Like Chippendales

revues

3 Marking, as windows

on Halloween

4 Large egg producer 5 Cream ___ (beverage) 6 Knight’s wear

7 Téa of

“Madam Secretary” 8 Tom Collins ingredient 9 Important datum for Social Security eligibility

10 Place in a crypt 11 Ceremonially names 12 Light, friendly punch 13 With audacity 18 Fair with booths 23 Fish in an ornamental pond

25 Neeson of “Taken” 27 Martial arts centers 28 “___ go bragh!” 30 Covert govt. org. 33 Mythical beauty whose face “launched a thousand ships” 34 French friend

37 Floor model

38 Source of arrogance 39 Jaw-dropping

opening?

40 Nascar devotee 41 “Shoulda listened

to me …”

42 Frantic rush

45 “Briefly …”

46 Never ever

47 Strands, as at

a ski lodge 49 Wearable souvenir,

informally 50 Powerball winner’s cry 51 Twosome

53 Attacked from

below the hip

54 At the crack

of dawn, say

58 Jules Verne captain 62 Gun lovers’ org. 63 Taker of religious vows 64 Ryan of “Sleepless

in Seattle”