THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Ancient Briton 5 Bulgarian or Croat 9 Writing surface for chalk 14 One ___ ( vitamin brand) 15 Something a surfer catches 16 Was sick 17 Next- to- last chemical element alphabetically, before zirconium 18 Iowa State’s city 19 Raises, as young 20 Ship heading 23 The Bible’s Queen of ___ 25 Still, in poetry 26 ___ Blanc, the so- called “Man of 1,000 Voices” 27 Liberal arts school in Waterville, Me. 32 Everyone 33 7 Up or Pepsi 34 Reads quickly 38 Unwelcome look 40 Prevent 43 Insect in a summer swarm 44 Did sum work? 46 Cookie sometimes dunked in milk 48 Genetic info carrier 49 Service at Staples or FedEx Office 53 ___ Jima 56 To the ___ degree 57 Ancient Roman robes 58 Person in overalls sucking a piece of straw, stereotypically 63 Ancient 71- Across land in modern- day Turkey 64 Pieces with 90° bends 65 Taxis 68 Long guitar parts 69 Assistant 70 It may be slapped after a joke

71 Like Zeus and Hera

72 Did some weeding

73 Meat- andvegetables dish

DOWN 1 La ___, Bolivia 2 Dictator Amin 3 No longer on the air 4 Baseball great known as “The Georgia Peach” 5 Exchange 6 Tibetan priest 7 Birds, scientifically speaking 8 Bowl or boat 9 Polynesian wraps 10 In ___ of ( as a replacement for) 11 Frighten 12 Like one- word answers 13 ’ 50s Ford failure 21 Baseball great Willie 22 Major component of the euro symbol 23 Milan’s La ___ opera house 24 Sank, as a putt 28 How some packages arrive, for short 29 Praiseful poem 30 Process leading up to childbirth 31 Heart diagnostic, in brief 35 Highly offended 36 Food from heaven 37 Male- only parties 39 Tape machine button abbr.

41 ___ de Triomphe 42 1920s car that had its inventor’s initials 45 Exasperated response to “How was your day?” 47 Makes a choice 50 8›” x 11” page size: Abbr. 51 “Definitely!” 52 Bygone cry of high spirits 53 Cake topper

54 Beau with roses, say

55 1/ 16 of a pound 59 Brand with a swoosh

60 Muse of history

61 Ye ___ Antique Shoppe

62 Secondhand

66 Hive dweller

67 Do needlework