NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fuel efficiency letters 4 They may join in a circle

8 Big-box hardware chain 13 “That’s it!”

14 Model Campbell 16 Cricket fields and badminton racket heads, for two

17 Punishes

19 Interrupt ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue 20 Aptly named ski town in

Utah

21 Stop the clock 23 Compact disc?

25 Hot spot in the

afternoon, say

26 I.C.U. specialists 29 Backed financially

31 Prep for surgery ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue

34 Multiple of one?

36 City whose name is Siouan for “good place to dig potatoes”

37 Primitive kind of diet 41 Subject of job offer

negotiations

43 They get high twice a day 44 Actress Munn

46 One of Alcott’s Little

Women

48 Workplace with no

commute

50 Leave ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue 55 Constellation next to

Ursa Major

56 Prefix with skeleton 58 Hagia ___ (World

Heritage Site in Istanbul) 59 Concession stand morsel 63 One of the pounds in a

pound cake

64 Brazenly

disregarding

66 Flail at home plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue

68 “Heaven forbid!” 69 Pledge drive bags

70 Gold in them thar hills,

e.g.

71 Promise

72 Home to the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas

73 Retreat

DOWN

1 Sophisticated ladies 2 Queen Elizabeth’s husband

3 Prefix with -pod

4 Alex and ___ (jewelry brand)

5 Affiliated group of M.C.S, as for Death Row Records

6 Rum mixer

7 Refine, in a way

8 Plot points?

9 Fallopian tube traveler

10 Something to sleep on with no springs 11 Country’s ___ Young Band

12 Only four-ninths of it is usually shown: Abbr. 15 Lands in the ocean 18 Media journalist

David

22 It’s said to be “the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to belittle”

24 Holy Roman emperor

beginning in 973 27 Quickly heat up,

in a way

28 Yellow Pages section

after “Sound Systems” 30 Dramatic tango move 32 Abstract Expressionist

Mark

33 News inits. since 1958 35 Snag

37 Four-time Hugo Award

winner Frederik 38 Potted ornamental 39 Prom night booking 40 Biblical progenitor 42 “And ___ …” 45 Super-duper

47 Better prepared,

perhaps

49 Just be oneself

51 Sport in which you could

use some pointers? 52 “Great to hear!” 53 Reckon

54 Secure

57 In first place 60 Psychoanalyst Freud,

daughter of Sigmund 61 Marty Feldman’s role in

“Young Frankenstein” 62 Big name in Art Deco 64 N.F.L. three-pointers:

Abbr.

65 Temperature

extreme

67 Sch. 50 miles west of

36-Across