The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0312

Across

1 Discontinue 5 ___ cake (dessert with a liquid chocolate core) 9 Skewered meat

dish

14 Wander 15 "Victory is

mine!"

16 Reply to

"Grazie"

17 A ??

19 Feeling the need to scratch

20 Blanc who was known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices"

21 Tries not to be

found

22 "Hello," in

Mandarin 23 Categorize 25 Give lip to 26 Where visitors take photos pretending to hold up a landmark

28 Not playing any songs, as a radio station 31 Rocker Lavigne

34 Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer 36 Never Have I ___ (party game) 37 Shakespearean

"Tsk!"

38 B ??

41 X – III

42 Berry rich in antioxidants (and vowels) 44 Accessory that may denote military rank 45 Deep chasm 47 Smallest unit of purchasing power, in an idiom

49 Start of a spell 51 Liquid-ate? 52 "You can say

that again!" 56 High-end

Honda 58 Pancakes sometimes served with caviar

61 Apt anagram of

"yea"

62 Put forward 63 B ??

65 Speak one's

mind 66 Cereal crop 67 Gave the goahead 68 Quick kisses 69 Occasion for blowing out candles, informally 70 Dudes

Down

1 Field of play? 2 Double Dutch

equipment 3 Racetrack

shapes 4 Pay-___-view 5 City ___ (place for a population sign)

6 Wowed 7 Botanical

climber

8 Flik and Dot, in

"A Bug's Life" 9 Kind of cord or

column 10 Skilled

performer

11 E ?? 12 Persian

honorific 13 Fluctuate wildly 18 Skydiving or a ride on a roller coaster

24 Big name in

nail polish 25 Whole host 27 Corroded 28 "Hi," in Lanai 29 Lanai neckwear 30 Mother of Kim, Kylie and Kourtney

31 A ways away 32 The "V" of V.P. 33 Follow a composer's notation ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle 35 Show

stoppers? 39 "Winning ___

everything" 40 Fictional land

ruled by Aslan 43 Winter Olympics facility 46 Naughty

48 Fills with

delight 50 Anonymous creator of a painting sold at auction that subsequently shredded itself

53 A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity 54 "Sheesh!" 55 Tends to an overgrown garden

56 Each

57 Make do 58 Amorphous

shape 59 Hamperful 60 Smallest

bit

64 Daily record