NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Bridge
5 “I’ll take care of that”
9 American Girl products
14 Jai ___
15 Common blessing
17 Undercover buster
18 Rhyming description for IHOP’s “Fresh ’N Fruity” pancakes
19 Safety warning for some kitchenware
21 Born
22 ___ Park, Calif.
23 Jots
26 Outer thigh stabilizers, in brief
29 See in court, say
30 Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel
31 Craze
34 Road Runner cartoon sights
38 Goof
39 Warm and cozy spots
41 Manning with two Super Bowl M.V.P. awards
42 Homeland of many 2010s refugees
44 What bugs are found in
45 Bug on a hook, maybe
46 Ctrl-___-Del
48 On the loose
50 Big news involving extraterrestrials
54 Caddies’ suggestions
55 Some four-year degrees, for short
56 Kangaroo’s pouch
59 Loudly angry, as a group
62 Flight part
64 Rolls the dice and moves one’s token
65 Perfect dives
66 Parts of porch chairs
67 Airport postings, in brief
68 Italian wine region
DOWN
1 Lead-in to Francisco or Pedro
2 With 36-Down, astronomical rarity … or a hint to the circled letters
3 Alexander Hamilton’s nemesis
4 ___ Maduro, successor to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez
5 Fairy tale baddie
6 Sign gas
7 Gets tagged, say
8 Rwandan minority
9 Banned insecticide
10 “Well, well, well!”
11 Sierra ___
12 Some Millers
13 Bad eye sight?
16 Nabokov’s nos
20 Part of many German names
22 They act in silence
24 Big name in antacids
25 Meade’s opponent at Gettysburg
27 “Dr.” of hip-hop
28 Onetime Volvo alternative
32 Master’s seeker’s hurdle, for short
33 Suffix with oper
35 Shipping lanes
36 See 2-Down
37 Browser history contents 39 “Freeze!”
40 Fedora, for one
43 McKellen who played Gandalf
45 One who won’t serve the average joe
47 Florida city on a bay
49 Back talk
50 Ear passage
51 Japanese city on a bay
52 ___ blanche
53 Prey for a brown bear
55 Smithereens
57 Actress Ramirez of “Grey’s Anatomy”
58 Cremation containers
60 Pull in
61 ___ Intrepid (New York City tourist attraction)
63 Letter after “X”