NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sweet tubers

5 Missouri city, informally

10 Suffix with narc14 Precious stone that has been found on Mars (fun fact!)

15 Start of a quip attributed to British comedian Ken Dodd 16 Sensei’s teaching

17 Modern lead-in to call 18 Speleologist

19 Leggy wader

20 Part 2 of the quip

23 Pipe bend

24 BBC ___

25 Bundle up

27 Pricy wristwatch

29 Letters on a lotion bottle 32 Buffalo hockey player

33 1975 Best Musical Tony winner, with “The”

35 “You betcha!”

37 It’s not free of charge

38 Part 3 of the quip

43 Howe’er

44 School of whales 45 Crackerjack

46 “Baloney!”

49 Y feature

51 Just as planned

55 Potential Emmy nominee 57 Academic address ender 59 She-bear, in Baja

60 Part 4 of the quip

64 Become too sweet after a while, say

65 John with 56 Top 40 singles in the U.S.

66 Overly fussy

67 Thomas Edison’s middle name 68 End of the quip

69 Entwined

70 ___ greens

71 Declared on a stack of Bibles 72 1974 C.I.A. parody

DOWN

1 The New ___ (weekly)

2 Creed of Hollywood

3 Old telephone service provider, informally

4 Sow chow

5 Send to attack

6 River crossed by Westminster Bridge 7 Mud

8 What’s within your range? 9 Otherworldly

10 Algonquian language

11 Locale of many cookie-cutter homes 12 1,049-mile race 13 Pot-scrubbing brand

21 Cause of a bee sting’s sting

22 Reply: Abbr.

26 Implement for confident crossword solvers

28 Source of the milk for pecorino Romano cheese

30 Little person

31 Bank charge

34 Quick turn

36 “Harper Valley ___” (1968 hit) 38 Town in two Dr. Seuss books

39 Kind of off-season baseball “league” 40 Identify on Facebook 41 Jamboree attendee

42 QB Roethlisberger 43 Demolition letters

47 Spend the night in

48 The ___ Ridge Boys (country/gospel quartet)

50 Many an ex-president’s book 52 Needing quarters, maybe

53 John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter served in it

54 2018 Super Bowl champs 56 Navigation hazards

58 Al ___ (pasta order)

61 A little dense

62 Other, in Acapulco

63 Hems’ partners

64 Where a truck driver sits