N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Queen or king, e.g. 6 Make way? 10 Recedes 14 Bankrupted 15 Snippet with a funeral date

16 Become drowsy 17 London tabloid that Piers Morgan once headed 19 Number of operas? 20 Bug in “A Bug’s Life”

21 “Off” time 22 Lead-tin alloy

24 In case 26 Sported 28 Christmas carol contraction 29 Dressing room staple 34 Taste common to tomatoes and seaweed 37 Product with a milk splash on its packaging 38 2010 Denzel Washington title role 39 Constraint of some diets 42 All together 44 Highway agcy. 45 Word with stage or storm

47 Some saxes 48 Interrogation room fixture 52 Telegraph “e”

53 Over 54 It comes in pods

58 Roller coaster effect, for some 61 Place on a schedule 63 Ingredient in a zombie 64 “Holy cow!” 65 Sci-fi anthology series on Netflix 68 Upsides 69 Contemporary of Vivaldi

70 Unit of prevention 71 Defect in a can

72 Seeks help 73 Was an agent, say

DOWN 1 Step on it! 2 Fatuous 3 Some marginalia 4 Frame in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” 5 Competitor of Blue Bell 6 Hoi ___ 7 Open: Sp. 8 Connecting word

9 Flight board figs.

10 Latin phrase in a footnote 11 2008 Beijing Olympics stadium, with “the” 12 Cheese that goes well with apples 13 Brand

18 [So boring!] 23 Like Constantinople 25 Rating that may signify profanity or violence 27 Jane of British lit 30 Show time 31 Itch

32 At that

33 Goes (for) 34 Ctrl+Z 35 Something Venus lacks 36 Affected 40 “Let me tell ya …!”

41 Tofu source 43 Loads 46 Pillage

49 Like Solomon among all biblical kings 50 Popular juice brand 51 Creature on Endor 55 Neighbor of a Pakistani 56 ___ de leche (ice cream topping) 57 Press (into) 58 “Ghostbusters” force, for short

59 Frigid suffix 60 “Take a Chance on Me” group 62 Ali had more than 20 of them in his career

66 ___ Tres Vírgenes, highest mountain in Baja California Sur

67 Golfer’s target