N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Land with coasts on both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf
5 Spaces between teeth
9 Slightly drunk
14 Like a whole-cooked fish, say
15 Not much
16 D-Day beach name
17 All that a greedy businessperson thinks about?
20 Venus de Milo, e.g.
21 Bendable body part
22 President pro ___
23 Hotshot guy, informally
25 Brood 26 Relaxing soak before bed, maybe
30 Stroller, to a Brit
32 Felipe, Matty or Jesus of baseball fame
33 2012 Ben Affleck film
36 Self-evident truth
39 Demand made with hands outstretched?
42 Harry Potter’s potions professor
43 Arise (from)
44 “99 Luftballons” band, 1984
45 Poker giveaway
47 Caves
49 Baseball great who was once engaged to J.Lo
51 Texas border city
54 “___ Misérables”
55 Eye problem
56 2003 animated film subtitled “Legend of the Seven Seas”
61 Particularly enthusiastic cry at the altar?
64 Most gerunds
65 Prefix with technology
66 Ski slope conveyance
67 College sports channel
68 Secluded valley
69 Pop group with the hits
17-, 39- and 61-Across
DOWN
1 Some old PCs
2 Plant part that most herbicides attack
3 “___ Karenina”
4 3-Down’s “no”
5 User name on an Xbox
6 Blood classification system
7 Cold War era epithet
8 Lead-in to -graphy
9 “The way I see it …”
10 “The way I see it …,” online
11 Staples of British Christmastime theater
12 The first cloned mammal
13 “Aren’t I great?!”
18 Arizona city and county seat
19 Website where you go to see the stars?
24 One of the Hemsworth brothers
25 Congresswoman Waters
26 Witches
27 Actor Ken or actress Lena
28 Common grilled cheese sandwich go-with
29 Knocked off the schedule
31 Unreliable source of news
34 Hrs. at the prime meridian
35 ___-3 fatty acids
37 Prefix with present
38 Signify
40 Sinuous fish
41 Discharge, as of gas
46 Jared of “Dallas Buyers Club”
48 Most of outer space
49 Skirt style
50 Second efforts
52 “You aren’t ___!”
53 Sewing machine part
55 Southern California sch.
57 The “N” of N.B.
58 Lettuce type
59 Not much, as of cream
60 Kids’ TV character with a talking map
62 Quaint place to stay
63 Word before “More
Night,” “More Try” and “More Chance” in Billboard hits