NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Sounds from schnauzers 5 Blue Ribbon brewer 10 Mt. Rushmore’s state: Abbr. 14 Bisque or gazpacho 15 Quran deity 16 Fit ___ tied 17 Guy shouting “Cowabunga!,” say 19 Romney’s 2012 running mate 20 Rational self, to Freud 21 ___ greens 22 Implement for eating 14-Across 24 Pulsate painfully 26 Onetime CBS News anchor 29 Kind of port on a PC 31 Troupe grp. 32 Brother of Shemp and Curly 33 Saver’s bank holding: Abbr. 36 Revealing skirt 39 Like a ram or lamb 41 Lacking broad application 44 Thin porridge 45 Sorbets, e.g. 46 Gambler’s chances 47 MS. readers at Ms., e.g. 48 Peter out 50 Like rappers Wayne and Kim 52 Rammed from behind 56 Gets lucky with one’s car downtown, say 60 Decorate 61 Mex. miss 63 De-squeaker 64 Trebek with all the answers 65 “Star Wars” droid … or a phonetic hint to what’s found in 17-, 26-, 41- and 52-Across 68 Prefix with -meter or -scope 69 Minuscule 70 Blog update, e.g. 71 Celtic tongue of the British Isles 72 Olympic swords 73 Torah holders

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1 Liability’s opposite 2 Still in draft form 3 Uproar 4 UV blockage no. 5 Lessen, as expenses 6 Birch relative often used in electric guitars 7 Popeye’s brawny rival for Olive Oyl 8 Heartsick 9 Hurdles for Ph.D.s 10 Thurmond who left the Senate at age 100 11 “Um … excuse me?” 12 Deserted 13 Documentarian Burns 18 Diminishes 23 Ironclad evidence 25 Quite bizarre 27 Tour leader 28 Ownership documents 30 Auto with a black, blue and white logo 33 Wrath 34 One offering test drives 35 Group led by Richard the Lionheart 37 Words before “So sue me!” 38 Big Apple inits. 40 Cello cousin 42 Like 10-Down vis-à-vis any other senator in history 43 Subj. for the foreign-born 49 Like a trait present at birth 51 Tablet since 2010 53 ___ Hart, lead role in “Chicago” 54 Lauder with a cosmetics empire 55 Remotely controlled flier 57 Helicopter part 58 Mall stand 59 Job openings 62 Output of Santa’s workshop 64 Gorilla 66 Sales worker, briefly 67 Superfund org.