The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Leader of the world’s smallest nation (“An Essay on Man”)
5 Procedure fee
10 Loaded (“Diving Into the Wreck”)
14 Actor Wilson
15 Opposite of mainstream
16 ___ breve (2/2 time)
17 Potentially insulting, for short
18 Prefix with meter, to a versifier
19 Junket
20 Kathmandu residents
22 Went effortlessly
24 Situation of intense conflict
25 Many a craft brew, informally
27 Restless
28 Volatile state of affairs
31 Press releases? 34 ___ Estby, Norwegian-born U.S. suffragist
35 Meal starter, maybe
39 Sushi topper
40 Didn’t abstain
42 Inflation meas.
43 Cry of denial
45 Prod with a stick, say
47 Westminster Abbey section hinted at by this puzzle’s architecture
51 Secretly loops in, in a way
53 Big commotion
54 Major crop in Nigeria
57 Address to click
58 1990s hit with the line “keep playing that song, all night”
60 Got the picture
61 Not cramped
63 Antitraffic org. 64 Prokaryotic model organism
66 “S.N.L.” alum Pedrad
67 Open about one’s sexuality, say
68 Bass staff symbol
69 Drinking vessel that may have a lid (“Sacred Emily”)
70 Device that might say “In two miles …”
71 Coat put on when it’s cold? (“Mending Wall”)
DOWN
1 Use a hammer on (“In a Station of the Metro”)
2 One with a deed
3 Pig of children’s TV
4 Sets up tents
5 ___ Field (Shea Stadium successor)
6 Not competitive
7 Summer hrs. in Sonoma
8 Freight in flight
9 Vintage
10 All-important numbers for TV execs
11 Competitor’s concession
12 This puzzle has 78 of them
13 Able to weather difficult conditions (“Channel Firing”)
21 Mekong Valley language
23 Abu Dhabi’s grp.
26 New Orleans N.B.A. team, informally
29 Expression of befuddlement
30 Ikea founder Ingvar ___
31 Nest egg letters
32 Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65
33 Not leave unattended
36 Aria, typically
37 “God Bless the ___”
38 Place to retire in a hurry?
40 Groundbreaker?
41 Ages and ages
44 Discouraging words
46 Critically important
48 Vegan cookout option
49 Occur in conversation
50 “Well, darn!”
51 Incinerates (“To a Mouse”)
52 Dubrovnik resident
55 Bucks, boars and bulls
56 Fleet-footed (“A Maypole”)
58 “How Firm a Foundation,” for one
59 “Survivor” host Probst
62 Customizable Nintendo avatar
65 “Proud Mary” band, in brief