N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 ___ browns (breakfast order) 5 Golf target 9 Where “they tried to make me go,” in an Amy Winehouse hit 14 Red Muppet on “Sesame Street” 15 Last word of grace 16 Wear away, as soil 17 Defeat decisively 18 ___ Payne, One Direction heartthrob 19 Turn on one foot, in basketball 20 One being laughed at 23 “A Nightmare on ___ Street” 24 “Help!,” at sea 25 Cheeseloving pest 28 Where Mom or Dad sits at dinner 33 “___ sells” (advertising maxim) 34 Take to the skies 35 Not walk completely upright 36 Mama’s mate 38 Org. co-founded by W. E. B. Du Bois 41 When doubled, a Hawaiian fish 42 Each and ___ 44 Place after win and place 46 Totally cool 47 Locale 51 Building blaster, for short 52 R&B’s ___ Hill 53 Cub Scout unit 54 Where it’s calmest in a hurricane 61 Part of a bicycle or loom 63 An hour before office closing time, maybe 64 Cookie in cookiesand-cream ice cream 65 Actress Berry 66 Brink 67 Space race competitor, for short 68 Clothesline alternative 69 Word that follows steel, open or pigeon 70 Boring way to learn

Down

1 Oregano, for one 2 Baseball’s Felipe 3 Filth 4 Good drink for a sore throat 5 First or last quarter in the lunar cycle 6 Exclude 7 Jacob’s wife 8 Catch in a net 9 Shares on Facebook, maybe 10 “The Phantom of the Opera” lead role 11 Futuristic mode of transportation in the “Back to the Future” films 12 Big fuss 13 Wager 21 Early automaker Ransom E. ___ 22 “Average” guy 26 Greetings in Honolulu 27 Lukewarm 28 What’s beyond the Pearly Gates 29 As predicted 30 Flight watchdog org. 31 Get rid of 32 Cash dispenser, briefly 33 Exhausted 37 Animal house? 39 Guerrilla Guevara 40 Like some doughnuts and wigs 43 One calling from a Swiss mountaintop 45 Troubles 48 Questlove’s hairdo, for short 49 Nursery rhyme seat 50 Doing concerts here and there 55 Connecticut Ivy 56 Kind of list 57 Ginormous 58 Approximately 59 Slumber 60 “Encore!” 61 Prof’s degree 62 Corn unit