NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Beat in chess 5 Astronomer who lost part of his nose in a sword duel

10 Classic Jumbotron

shout-out

14 Frost

15 Takes a bit off 16 Certain newspaper

column

17 Boot

18 Sorna y Nublar, en

“Jurassic Park” 19 Long locks

20 Educator in a smock 22 Figure seen on

Athena's shield 23 Thumbs-up

24 Skim

26 Bit of letter-shaped

hardware

28 Rangers' domain

32 Thoroughbred, e.g. 36 Fedex Cup organizer

37 ___ of war

38 Bluish hues

40 Muslim leaders

41 “A Promised Land”

author, 2020

43 Get into trouble, in a

way

45 Grassy expanse 46 Some drinking vessels 48 Kind of zone in a city 50 1948 Literature

Nobelist

52 Youngest player to score in the FIFA World Cup (age 17) 53 Two-word tribute

55 Bottle topper 59 Profession in an O'neill

title

62 What “should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy,” per Noël Coward 64 Declare

65 Kid-lit character with a green suit and gold crown

66 Midrange club

67 Award-winning Ward 68 Chess : check :: go : ___ 69 “Pretty please?” 70 Geekish

71 Fixes

72 Big name in printers

DOWN

1 Now: Sp.

2 Talks up

3 Some bridge

positions

4 Leader of the house band on “The Muppet Show”

5 Low-budget feature 6 Like decisions made on

a dare, typically 7 “Stormy Weather”

composer

8 Learn secondhand 9 Either end of a school

bus?

10 Side that usually has

the most supporters 11 Device used in interactive museum displays 12 What a

“hamburger button” opens

13 Dedicated works 21 Reader's jotting, e.g. 22 Reader's jottings … or a hint to this puzzle's theme 25 Fancy-pants

27 Title derived from

“Caesar”

29 Most of

a sugar cane 30 Marisa of “In the

Bedroom”

31 Writer Sontag 32 Underway

33 Some salads 34 French “equivalent”

35 Gusto

39 Dot on a subway map

42 Dissolve

44 Scan options for the

claustrophobic 47 Kind of milk or sauce 49 Put on sale, say

51 So far

54 Densely packed, in a

way 56 Under-the-sink

fixture

57 Animals depicted on

the Ishtar Gate 58 Film composer

Morricone

59 Tried something? 60 At any time

61 The blue part of blue

cheese

63 About .914 meters

65 “Pow!”