The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 French Open court material
5 One thing … or a twosome
9 Alfred Nobel or Anders Celsius
14 McDonald’s arches, e.g.
15 Model/actress Delevingne
16 Ebbed
17 Historic town in Veszprém county, Hungary, noted for its baroque architecture
20 Short line at the top of a column, in typesetting
21 Turn out
22 + or – atom
23 Thigh-baring dress feature
25 Sporeproducing plant
27 Soldier clad in gray, for short
30 Bisected
33 Start of Caesar’s boast
36 “It’s about time!”
38 A Stooge
39 Fits of anger
40 Left tributary of the Vitim River in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
43 Only ape to orbit the earth (1961)
44 ___ sequitur
45 Colombia’s capital
46 Went by taxi or train
47 From Florence or Pisa
49 Like a 1960s-’70s TV “squad”
50 One-size-fits-all garment
52 Opposed to, rurally
54 Piñata smasher
56 Board a moving vehicle
59 Part of a suspension bridge
63 Village between Kruszyna and Jacków in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (pop. 305)
66 TV newsman Willie
67 Janis’s partner in the comics
68 Knoll
69 Retort to “Are too!”
70 One of the Lennons
71 Numbered composition
Down
1 End of a hammer
2 Greiner of “Shark Tank”
3 Like Gruyère or Grandpa
4 Idiots
5 R.N.’s workplace
6 What the Lord sometimes does, in a classical expression
7 Land o’ leprechauns
8 Sober-minded org.
9 Criticism that might be made behind someone’s back
10 Ashen
11 Scotty’s domain on the U.S.S. Enterprise
12 Brief how-to
13 Where fruit-picking originated?
18 Wise-looking
19 Gym clothes holder
24 Aim
26 Enjoying the great outdoors … indoors
27 Less cooked
28 Prefix with -centric
29 Laundry problem for Dracula?
31 Chorus of approval
32 “Hahaha”
34 Unfamiliar with
35 Feels down
37 Where icebergs are found
41 The Rockets, on scoreboards
42 Classic camera brand
48 Cooking oil option
51 Butler of fame
53 Kind of chip
54 Nickname for major-league baseball’s Angel Stadium, with “the”
55 “Uh … excuse me”
57 Some fundraising grps.
58 People eater
60 Sonar signal
61 Doozy
62 Serpentine swimmers
64 Letters on a brandy bottle
65 Bridge limit unit