NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sweet tubers

5 Missouri city, informally 10 Suffix with narc14 Precious stone that has been found on Mars (fun fact!) 15 Start of a quip attributed to British comedian Ken Dodd 16 Sensei’s teaching 17 Modern lead-in to call 18 Speleologist

19 Leggy wader

20 Part 2 of the quip 23 Pipe bend

24 BBC ___

25 Bundle up

27 Pricy wristwatch 29 Letters on a lotion bottle 32 Buffalo hockey player 33 1975 Best Musical Tony

winner, with “The” 35 “You betcha!”

37 It’s not free of charge 38 Part 3 of the quip 43 Howe’er

44 School of whales 45 Crackerjack 46 “Baloney!”

49 Y feature

51 Just as planned 55 Potential Emmy nominee 57 Academic address ender

59 She-bear, in Baja

60 Part 4 of the quip

64 Become too sweet after a while, say 65 John with 56 Top 40 singles in the U.S. 66 Overly fussy 67 Thomas Edison’s middle name 68 End of the quip 69 Entwined

70 ___ greens 71 Declared on a stack of Bibles 72 1974 C.I.A. parody

DOWN

1 The New ___ (weekly) 2 Creed of Hollywood 3 Old telephone service provider, informally 4 Sow chow

5 Send to attack

6 River crossed by Westminster Bridge 7 Mud

8 What’s within your range? 9 Otherworldly 10 Algonquian language 11 Locale of many cookie-cutter homes 12 1,049-mile race 13 Pot-scrubbing brand 21 Cause of a bee sting’s sting

22 Reply: Abbr. 26 Implement for confident crossword solvers 28 Source of the milk for pecorino Romano cheese 30 Little person

31 Bank charge

34 Quick turn

36 “Harper Valley ___”

(1968 hit)

38 Town in two Dr. Seuss

books

39 Kind of off-season

baseball “league” 40 Identify on Facebook 41 Jamboree

attendee

42 QB Roethlisberger 43 Demolition letters 47 Spend the night in 48 The ___ Ridge Boys (country/gospel quartet)

50 Many an ex-president’s book

52 Needing quarters, maybe

53 John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter served in it

54 2018 Super Bowl

champs

56 Navigation

hazards

58 Al ___ (pasta order) 61 A little dense

62 Other, in Acapulco 63 Hems’ partners 64 Where a truck driver

sits