N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wristwatch part

6 Rock band with a 1980 album that went 25x platinum

10 “That’s amazing!”

13 Crumbles away

15 Place

16 “That’s amazing!”

17 They put in long hours to get better hours

19 Emmywinning actress Aduba

20 Strong base

21 What’s theorized to have preceded the Big Bang

22 Puts off, in a way

24 Downhearted softies?

27 Slimeball

28 Showy wraps

30 Telephone when all lit up?

34 Word seen above a mug shot

36 What polar opposites have in common

37 Graceful leap

38 It may lead up to a letdown

39 When some people break for lunch

41 ___-fresh

42 Red slips of paper?

43 ___ Bengal (five-star hotel in Kolkata)

44 Endure punishment

46 Founder of the Sikh religion

49 Actress Laura

50 What’s uttered by a mime

51 Potshots

53 Sprinkle (with)

56 Secondbusiest airport in the U.S.

57 ___ ears

60 Houseware brand that’s easy to read in a mirror

61 Keeps going despite fatigue …or a hint to three features of this puzzle

65 Military missions, informally

66 Wedding wear

67 Laugh riot

68 Opposition

69 Spot

70 They may be given in relief

DOWN

1 Promote

2 It’s used to carry out an order

3 Gear for the bench

4 Fracas

5 Look over 6 Oscar winner Mahershala

7 Corp. leader in charge of 35-Down

8 Not-so-great depression

9 John of “Being John Malkovich”

10 Enthusiastic reply to “Wanna try?”

11 Go slowly

12 “___ with me?”

14 Many a 4WD ride

18 Name on both “The Simpsons” and “South Park”

23 They cause rolling of the eyes, not rolling in the aisles

24 Woos outside one’s league, so to speak

25 Misleading malware

26 It brings the heat

28 Place to catch shrimp

29 Not accidental

31 Aid in catching shrimp

32 Had a homecooked meal

33 Observance once known as Quadragesima (Latin for “fortieth”)

34 Harrison, e.g., but not Ford

35 Figures, e.g.

40 Gets darker, in a way

45 Ones arranging spots

47 Gall

48 Approximate weight of a liter of water

52 Green splats, on Rotten Tomatoes

53 [And … it’s gone!]

54 Fair

55 Bemoans

57 Format of a digital pic

58 Its name is said to mean “people of the mountains”

59 Where squatters may be seen

62 Defeat just barely

63 Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to “WI”

64 3-D test