NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Modern set in the family room 5 Family name of Henry VIII 10 Canine

newborns 14 Suffix with buck 15 Tehran native 16 Samoa’s capital 17 Site of a 1963 speech by 38Across 20 Asparagus unit 21 Matchmaker’s

match-ups 22 George Eliot’s

“Adam ___” 25 Allow 26 Boston ___

Party 27 Boeing 747, e.g. 30 Cause associated with 38-Across 33 Docs’ org. 34 Enthusiastic 35 Actress Saldana

of “Avatar” 36 “Morning Joe” co-host Brzezinski 38 Annual Jan.

honoree 41 Vampire’s

bedtime 44 When a plane is due to take off: Abbr. 46 Long narrative

poem 48 Three on a grandfather clock 49 Repeated phrase in 38Across’s speech at the 17-Across 53 Genetic stuff 54 Super ___

(game console) 55 Employ 56 Seize 58 Aggressive campaign TV spot 61 New arrangement of tracks on a recording 65 Famous closing words of the 49Across speech 68 “Rule, Britannia” composer Thomas 69 Muscat citizen 70 Poet ___

Khayyám 71 “Star Wars”

sage 72 Pulls apart 73 Muted trumpet

sound

DOWN

1 Dutch old master Frans 2 Burning candle feature 3 Voice inflection 4 Words, informally 5 “___ Death” (2000s Fox sitcom) 6 Large container of coffee 7 Moist 8 Tie score early in a game, maybe 9 Covered with more frost 10 ___-mutuel

betting 11 Still undecided 12 Luxury watch

brand 13 Does a Latin

dance 18 Vacuum cleaner

brand 19 David ___, baseball’s Big Papi 23 Per ___ (by the

day: Lat.) 24 Stuntman

Knievel 27 Smucker’s

product 28 Former owner of Capitol Records 29 Get off the

fence? 31 Print shop

device 32 “In ___ We

Trust” 37 Dunes transport,

briefly 39 Emailed pic,

often 40 Niagara Falls

sound 42 Take home the

gold 43 Actress Long of “Boyz N the Hood” 45 Score before

ad in or ad out 47 Brainy 49 More or less 50 Prefix with

sexual 51 Request 52 “My goodness!” 57 Under 59 Zone 60 College adviser 62 Papa’s mate 63 What “vidi” means in “Veni, vidi, vici” 64 Bonus, in commercial lingo 66 Conclusion 67 “___ for apple”