The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 “Rent” character who sings “Light My Candle” 5 “And there you

have it!” 10 “Woo-hoo!

The weekend’s here!” 14 Stench 15 Darling one 16 Otherwise 17 Titular animated character whose theme music is by Henry Mancini 19 Place for a

ponytail

20 Add, as an

extra perk 21 Indian and

Arctic 23 Baseball great

Mel

24 Cereal mascot who says “They’re gr-rreat!”

29 Like a famed

piper 31 Winning tictac-toe line, when player X isn’t paying attention

32 All together 33 Barely manage 36 Certain sib 38 Triumphed 39 Fictional feline from Japan

… or how one might greet 17-, 24-, 54- or 65-Across 42 Yard cover 45 Wooden part of

a railroad track 46 Animal with a long, sticky tongue

50 ___ Gay (W.W.

II plane) 52 Song refrain

syllable 53 There’s no place

like it

54 Oz resident lacking in courage 59 Jenna Fischer’s role on “The Office” 60 Negotiator’s

refusal 61 Toy item set up

to be toppled 63 Cried

65 Lewis Carroll character with a disembodied smile

68 Hoppy beers, in

brief

69 Duke Ellington’s “Take the ___” 70 Partner 71 London art

museum 72 Body parts that might be “bumped” 73 Stadium cries

DOWN

1 Shaggy Beatles

hairdos

2 Inane 3 Under-thebed resident, in a child’s imagination 4 Peeves

5 Middle of many

German names 6 Choose

7 Old Apple picture-editing app

8 Freeloader 9 “___ Grows in

Brooklyn” 10 Pickleball

relative 11 Scottish city on

the River Clyde 12 Web connection

letters 13 Around 2%-3%, for a customer using a credit card

15 Hand: Sp. 18 Avocado’s

center

22 Just one tiny

bite

25 Like the gases argon and xenon

26 Cellist ___ Ma 27 Ambient music trailblazer Brian 28 Stimpy’s pal in

cartoons 30 Morse code

“morsel”

34 Old explosive device used to breach castle walls

By Emily Rourke

35 Retired QB

Manning 36 Mount that Moses mounted 37 Hairy cousin in “The Addams Family” 40 Philosopher

Marx

41 “___, sure, you betcha!” (classic Minnesotan expression) 42 Fraction of a

min.

43 Artist/ activist

Yoko 44 Thoroughly

memorized 47 Buzzworthy,

say

48 Flow (from) 49 Broadcasts not done in a studio 51 Taoism

founder 52 1840s White House family 55 Common after-dinner coffee preference 56 Christine of “Chicago Hope” 57 Norse god of wisdom and war 58 Neither’s

partner 62 Note “to all

staff” 63 Cleverness 64 Energymonitoring org. 66 Ordeal for many H.S. seniors 67 What’s-___face