NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 Falafel holders 6 Piano technician 11 Start of a

countdown 14 Food- spoiling

bacterium 15 “Remember the

___!” 16 Party card game 17 “Tell me the rumors are false!” 19 Kook 20 Revolutionary

Guevara 21 Some HDTVs 22 Glowing part of

a fire 24 Comprehensive,

as a report 27 Put an end to 28 2000 Kevin Spacey/ Helen Hunt film 32 Sounding

congested 35 Smash into 36 Leave rolling in

the aisles 37 Approximation:

Abbr. 38 Oscarnominated Enya song from 2001’ s “The Lord of the Rings” 42 Was out to

lunch? 43 Apple tablet 45 Dog doc 46 Helped out 48 Offer effusive

praise 52 Poe poem that starts “Once upon a midnight dreary,” with “The” 53 Long to have 57 Capital of

Oregon 58 Sweetie pie 60 “That ___ lie!” 61 Get older 62 Improvise 66 California’s Big

___ 67 Sign on a boardinghouse window 68 Cowboys’ home 69 D. D. E.’ s

predecessor 70 Cheese with

holes 71 ActressWinona of “Stranger Things” Down 1 Actor Joe of “My

Cousin Vinny” 2 Corporate raider

Carl 3 Trifled ( with) 4 Three- time

Frazier foe 5 Take a load off 6 Chinese martial

art 7 Neighbor of the

radius 8 Yanks : New York :: ___ : Washington 9 Letters on an

ambulance 10 One whose work

is on the house? 11 Popular

sandwich order 12 Make a list of 13 Do, re or mi 18 Pretentiously

showy 23 Clean Air Act

and others 25 Clean Air Act

org. 26 It may be read

by a psychic 27 Grooming

implement 29 Travis of country

music 30 Liposuction

target 31 Not naturally

red- haired, e. g. 32 Singer Diamond

or Young 33 Spears at the

dinner table 34 “Keep your eyes

open!” 39 Stratford- upon

___ 40 Hankering 41 Per person 44 Drop

precipitously 47 D. D. E., familiarly 49 Lures 50 Bad ones are

hard to break 51 Rapper- turned

TV actor 54 Wicked one 55 ___ orange 56 Harder to find 57 Pageant wrap 58 Indonesian tourist destination 59 Naval

agreements? 63 Like a pitch between the ankles and knees 64 “It’s f- f- freezing!” 65 “Yippee!”