NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shakespeare, for one 5 Product of Chevron or Shell

8 Many an electoral chart, in brief

13 State that’s said to be “high in the middle” 14 Con’s opposite

15 Take a deep breath 16 Where Army recruits go to start training

18 One placing a phone call

19 Houston-based food service giant

20 Three goals by the same player

22 Actor Wilson

25 Part of a Halloween costume

26 Shexll game

30 Norway’s capital

34 “___ the land of the free …”

35 Prefix with -vore or -scient

36 Made snide verbal attacks

38 Ostentatiously ornamented

40 ___ Arbor, Mich.

42 Shade akin to army green

43 “Finally!”

45 Avocado dip,

informally 47 Antidiscrimination

inits.

48 What snakes and lizards do periodically with their skin 49 British heavy metal band named for a torture device

52 What trees do in the wind

54 Coordinate, informally

55 All tuckered out 59 Go deeply (into)

63 ___ borealis

64 Game whose tokens have included the starts of 16-, 20-, 26-, 49- and 55-Across

67 Apache and Sioux, for two

68 Beetles, e.g., for short 69 It leads the orchestra in tuning

70 ___ Park, Colo.

71 Word before lion, level or legs

72 Square ones won’t fit into round holes

DOWN

1 Short hairstyles 2 Greeting to a “matey” 3 Rivers, in Mexico 4 Company doing business mostly online 5 4.0 is a superb one, in brief

6 Cost an ___ and a leg 7 Student who’s no longer a frosh

8 Cups and quarts 9 Controversial cosmetics ingredient 10 Its capital is Bamako 11 Trump impersonator Baldwin 12 Become more attentive, with “up” 15 Pet collar attachments 17 Some rodeo riders 21 “What ___?” (end of a riddle)

23 Stately tree

24 “99 Red Balloons” singer

26 Some fraternity party getups

27 Actor Ledger

28 Cry made while chestthumping

29 Rock Starr?

31 Observed secretly 32 Flood blocker

33 Ancient theater

37 Slangy turndown of a request for help 39 Expectant papas 41 Convent residents 44 Bejeweled bands

46 Senator Klobuchar 50 Loaf with seeds

51 Cold treat on a stick 53 Tangle behind a computer, maybe 55 Calendar info

56 “___ is not to reason why …” 57 Stick-to-itiveness 58 License bureaus, for short

60 Part of an ear or brain 61 Certain Youtube posting

62 Seeing things? 65 Be indebted to 66 Secretive government org.