THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Baseball’s record-setting Ripken

4 Catches a touchdown pass, e.g.

10 Not much 14 Lead-in to carte or mode 15 Tel Aviv’s land

16 Helen of ___ (mythical beauty)

17 Flier that may carry rabies 18 Small bird of prey

20 French girlfriend

22 Ginger ___ (soft drink) 23 Seaweed, e.g. 24 Something falling down, in a children’s song 28 Lucy of 2000’s “Charlie’s Angels” 29 Summons, as strength

33 Put the kibosh on 36 Actor Efron of “High School Musical”

37 Sign by a fire escape

38 “Mazel ___!” 39 Commandeers … or a friendly hello to the people starting 18-, 24-, 51- and 62Across?

42 Inits. on an airport uniform 43 ___ out a living (barely gets by)

45 Moonshine container 46 Carriage named for an English county 48 Careful reading

50 Farrow of “Hannah and Her Sisters” 51 Dorothy’s footwear in “The Wizard of Oz” 57 White-faced 60 Bit of cookware

61 Biz bigwig 62 What follows Thanksgiving 66 “What ___?!” (cry of surprise) 67 Volcanic flow 68 From not long ago

69 Was in charge of

70 In a dead heat

71 No longer shrink-wrapped 72 First Republican prez

DOWN

1 Group of schemers 2 Mission where Davy Crockett was killed

3 Don Juan sort 4 Bro’s sibling 5 Network for political junkies 6 Big name in toothbrushes 7 Pinker in the middle, say 8 Always, in poetry

9 ___-mo (replay option) 10 Olympics competitor 11 Toot one’s own horn 12 Sioux City’s state

13 Young ’un 19 Goes back and forth, as a tail

21 Revise copy 25 “That’s gotta hurt!”

26 Big name in desktops 27 Teals and mallards

30 Start of a newsboy’s cry 31 Move skyward 32 Obedience school command 33 “Watch your ____!”

34 Soft drink choice

35 Muslim woman’s head cover

36 Make a sharp turn back 40 Bastille Day’s month

41 Kind of pump 44 “I’m up for doing the job!” 47 Like thumped watermelons making a deep sound

49 Like ships on the ocean floor 52 Pizazz

53 Filled with cargo 54 Harebrained 55 2007’s Record of the Year by Amy Winehouse 56 Big public display

57 Up to the task 58 Czech or Croat

59 “Girls Just Want to ___ Fun”

63 Jimi Hendrix’s do, informally 64 Sen.’s coun-