NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “___ yourself!”

6 Crayfish feature

10 Figure of the underground economy?

15 Fresh air’s opposite?

16 Well positioned (for)

17 Barrel part

18 “Waiting for Lefty” playwright 19 Many a toy train track 20 Variable estimated by pollsters 21 Kid’s transport, literally

24 Drove off

25 Night class subj.

26 Cells for new generations

27 Sch. with campuses in Brooklyn and Brookville

28 ___ steak (British term for a sirloin cut)

31 Unrenewed, as a subscription 34 Les États-___

36 Present location, when visiting the boondocks

39 Graph section, literally

45 Secret application, perhaps 46 “False face must hide what the false heart doth ___”: Macbeth 47 Nonmeat choices at a deli counter 50 With 55-Across, preservative for fine wood furniture

53 Laila of the ring

54 Many meses in México

55 See 50-Across

58 Mass figure

60 Military headquarters, literally 65 Hacking target

66 State firmly

67 Biblical book duo

69 Salon procedure

70 Designer Wang 71 Descriptor of many statesmen

72 Brawl

73 Stream disturbance

74 Edges up to

DOWN

1 “Dude!”

2 Cold War threat

3 Dealer’s query

4 Big brand of kitchen knives

5 Eve who wrote “The Vagina Monologues” 6 Swamp critter

7 Early historian of ancient Rome 8 Quickly

9 “The Shape of Things to Come” author 10 Brief period in nuclear physics: Abbr. 11 Modest response to a compliment 12 D.E.A. agents, informally

13 Change through time

14 Like favorite literary passages

22 Part of the URL for 27-Across 23 Popular afternoon talk show

24 “You lowdown, no-good bum,” e.g. 29 One-track

30 Sets (down)

32 “The supreme ___ of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”: Sun Tzu 33 Corner office, maybe

35 R.B.I., for one

37 Accelerated pace

38 In the pink

40 Actor Stephen

41 Basis of some insurance fraud 42 Amazon menace

43 What “ex-” means

44 Duplicate

47 Obsolescent communications devices 48 Severe malaise

49 Like “n” and “r,” in phonetics 51 Kerfuffle

52 Popular puzzle invented in Japan 56 Words on some blood drive stickers 57 Enjoyed immensely

59 Like “Dancing With the Stars” dancers 61 Basic concept

62 Nondairy substitute

63 Jerry Lewis’s “Nutty Professor” was an early example of one

64 Overcast

68 Most AARP members: Abbr.