The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Repo job

4 ___ gel (drying agent that comes in small packets) 10 Upscale hotel

amenities 14 “Nasty!” 15 Sneaker brand

in a RunD.M.C. hit 16 Gather 17 Breakfast cereal with a toucan mascot [69-Across!] 19 Mediterranean

erupter 20 Cause of a mascara streak

21 “Star Wars” cantina patrons, for short

22 Hold sway 23 Team that broke the “Curse of the Bambino” in 2004 [69-Across!] 27 Reef dweller 30 Group that often elects officers in Sept. 31 Aurora’s Greek

counterpart 32 Reward for

giving a paw 34 Didn’t move 39 Triple Crown winner of 2015 [69-Across!] 42 Time for

parting shots? 43 “Buffalo soldier, dreadlock

___”: Bob Marley

44 Fury

45 “Clear now?” 47 Ax

48 Video game franchise featuring Sub-Zero and Sonya Blade [69-Across!] 54 Word with

green or pearl 55 “Traffic was terrible,” maybe 56 Designer Gucci 60 One-term

president 61 “Pour Some Sugar on

Me” rockers [69-Across!] 64 Mahjong piece 65 Largish jazz

combos National Gallery architect

A lot of these tend to go to waste

Like the smell

of fresh pine [not my typo] 66 67 68 69

DOWN

1 Clump of

grass 2 Dungeons & Dragons monster 3 “Easy there!” 4 H.S. hurdle 5 Least active 6 Ray of

“GoodFellas” 7 “Not true what you say about me!”

8 Gown go-with 9 Buffoon

10 King Midas’s

vice

11 Hairy cryptids 12 Tropical flavor 13 Big name in

shapewear 18 Planet, to a

poet

22 Place for a pit

stop

24 A sight for

sore eyes? 25 Like a halfmoon tide 26 With 35-Down, savings plan option

27 And others, for

short 28 Humorist

Bombeck

By Michael Paleos

29 Some jeans 33 Verb with

thou

34 NBC hit since

1975, in brief 35 See 26-Down 36 “Gee whiz!” 37 “It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet,” per Maya Angelou 38 Sign of spring 40 Fast Lewis 41 Supermodel

Wek

45 Said “cheese,”

say

46 Field where Jackie Robinson played 48 “Carpe diem,”

for one 49 Sign in a radio

booth 50 Rummage

(through) 51 “___ adorbs” 52 Leaving for 53 Like some

water

57 Track units 58 Trois :

French :: ___ :

German 59 Like many

of Horace’s works 61 Business index, with “the” 62 Prefix with

friendly 63 “Gangnam Style” rapper