The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Runs recreationally
5 Some hotel room amenities
10 The “Toreador Song,” for one
14 From the top
15 Fulfill mundane but necessary responsibilities, in modern lingo
16 Sift (through)
17 Software prototype
18 Vessels with large containers
20 Does pranks with rolls, informally
22 Connecticut Ivy Leaguer
23 Nail polish brand
25 Pursue romantically
28 Actor/comedian Lil ___ Howery
29 Talking item in Dora the Explorer’s backpack
32 Oceanfront district of Los Angeles
35 Manhattan neighborhood
37 Front-page mergers and acquisitions, e.g. 39 Grayish
40 Skateboarding jump
41 Neckwear that smells nice
42 Photographer Adams
43 Difficult, unfun chore
44 Investment guide calculation
46 Props for presentations
49 Most reptilian, in a way
50 “Spring forward” or “fall back” letters
51 Electrical unit with a Greek letter symbol
53 Look at
54 Beings not (yet) proven to exist
55 Thundering
57 Trinity member
59 Exclamation point inside a yellow triangle, for one
64 “Only Murders in the Building” airer
67 Nobel laureate Wiesel
68 Longtime Jay Silverheels role
69 Ankh-carrying goddess
70 71 & 72 Commits perjury … or what can be found four times in this puzzle
Down
1 Sharp punch
2 “!” keymate
3 Scramming
4 Exchange
5 ___ fly
6 Org. promoting canine care
7 Spleen
8 “Enigma Variations” composer
9 Lifted
10 Be sore
11 Pépin le Bref, par exemple
12 Troublesome sort
13 Muscles tightened by planking, in brief
19 Stprage tower
21 Greta Garbo, by birth
23 Diffused gradually
24 Saffron-flavored dishes
26 Horatian creation
27 Big name in brushes
29 Beauty pageant founded in 1959 as a mailin photo contest
30 One who doesn’t have a prayer?
31 Alternatives to street parking
33 Negro leagues great Satchel
34 Butterlike spreads
36 Hawaiian island shaped like an apostrophe
38 Considering the fact that
42 Setting for many van Gogh works
45 It’ll dawn on you
47 Folk stories
48 Up-start?
52 Worker with a trowel
55 A long, long time
56 Food part that’s usually not eaten
58 Home of Denison University
59 Tierra ___ Fuego
60 Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year in 1974 (10 years after he first became world champion)
61 German “never”
62 Bell Atlantic merger partner of 2000
63 Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed
65 Buzzing … or, in a different sense, buzzed
66 Do a wedding task, informally