Crossword Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Leader of the world’s smallest nation (“An Essay on Man”)

5 Procedure fee

10 Loaded (“Diving Into the Wreck”)

14 Actor Wilson

15 Opposite of mainstream

16 ___ breve (2/2 time)

17 Potentially insulting, for short

18 Prefix with meter, to a versifier

19 Junket

20 Kathmandu residents

22 Went effortlessly

24 Situation of intense conflict

25 Many a craft brew, informally

27 Restless

28 Volatile state of affairs

31 Press releases?

34 ___ Estby, Norwegian-born U.S. suffragist

35 Meal starter, maybe

39 Sushi topper

40 Didn’t abstain

42 Inflation meas.

43 Cry of denial

45 Prod with a stick, say

47 Westminster Abbey section hinted at by this puzzle’s architecture

51 Secretly loops in, in a way

53 Big commotion

54 Major crop in Nigeria

57 Address to click

58 1990s hit with the line “keep playing that song, all night”

60 Got the picture

61 Not cramped

63 Antitraffic org.

64 Prokaryotic model organism

66 “S.N.L.” alum Pedrad

67 Open about one’s sexuality, say

68 Bass staff symbol

69 Drinking vessel that may have a lid (“Sacred Emily”)

70 Device that might say “In two miles …”

71 Coat put on when it’s cold? (“Mending Wall”)

DOWN

1 Use a hammer on (“In a Station of the Metro”)

2 One with a deed

3 Pig of children’s TV

4 Sets up tents

5 ___ Field (Shea Stadium successor)

6 Not competitive

7 Summer hrs. in Sonoma

8 Freight in flight

9 Vintage

10 All-important numbers for TV execs

11 Competitor’s

concession

12 This puzzle has

78 of them

13 Able to weather difficult conditions (“Channel Firing”)

21 Mekong Valley language

23 Abu Dhabi’s grp.

26 New Orleans N.B.A. team, informally

29 Expression of

befuddlement

30 Ikea founder

Ingvar ___

31 Nest egg letters

32 Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65

33 Not leave unattended

36 Aria, typically

37 “God Bless the ___”

38 Place to retire in a hurry?

40 Groundbreaker?

41 Ages and ages

44 Discouraging words

46 Critically important

48 Vegan cookout option

49 Occur in conversation

50 “Well, darn!”

51 Incinerates (“To a Mouse”)

52 Dubrovnik resident

55 Bucks, boars and bulls

56 Fleet-footed (“A Maypole”)

58 “How Firm a Foundation,” for one

59 “Survivor” host Probst

62 Customizable Nintendo avatar

65 “Proud Mary” band, in brief