N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 Ostrichlike bird 4 Alternative to rock and scissors 9 T-bone, for one 14 Sought office 15 Girl who was a guest at the Mad Hatter’s tea party 16 Bird on the back of a quarter 17 Column’s opposite 18 “You forgot to water the plants,” Tom said ___ 20 Hunter constellation 22 Poems whose titles often start “To a …” 23 Playwright Hellman 26 Savory filled pastries 31 Delivered, as a punch 33 Pop-up or foul 34 Prefix with cycle or color 36 Stared stupidly 38 Doorbell sound 39 Get the ___ of 41 Reaction to the Beatles in 1964 or Justin Bieber in 2010 43 Not many 44 Former F.B.I. director J. ___ Hoover 46 Lawful 48 Gridiron scores, for short 49 Salmon serving 51 Lowly, as labor 53 North Pole workplace 55 Sound systems 58 Pitcher 60 “Saturday Night Fever” music genre 61 “Oh, I just fed the alligator,” Tom said ___ 67 What crosswalks cross: Abbr. 68 The “P” of R.S.V.P. 69 Hit 1977 musical with the song “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” 70 Meadow 71 Prom duds for guys 72 Fills, as a washer 73 Since Jan. 1

Down 1 Swashbuckling Flynn 2 Native New Zealander 3 “As much as I’d like, you’re not getting any of my estate,” Tom said ___ 4 Hocking 5 “___ Baba and the 40 Thieves” 6 Poe’s “The ___ and the Pendulum” 7 Sound effect in a long hallway 8 Baby Moses was found among them 9 Earthshaking 10 Light brown 11 What might be cooked once over easy 12 Everybody 13 Item often kept on a chain 19 500 sheets of paper 21 Suffix with schnozz 24 Eve’s man 25 2015 earthquake locale 27 Dept. of Labor arm 28 “Being a bit lazy, I prefer automatic,” Tom said ___ 29 Directed (at) 30 Worries 32 Jeans material 34 Piracy, e.g. 35 SiriusXM medium 37 Cuts into cubes 40 Guys’ partners 42 Fats Waller’s “___ Misbehavin’” 45 Microwaves, say 47 Colors, as hippies’ shirts 50 Village 52 ___ Ben Canaan of “Exodus” 54 Part of a piano or bike 56 Duo quadrupled 57 “It pains me to hear that” 59 So-called “Biggest Little City in the World” 61 Choose (to) 62 Annual winter outbreak 63 Obsolescent means of communication 64 Hasten 65 Genetic stuff 66 Cornea cover