NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Bridge

5 “I’ll take care of that”

9 American Girl

products

14 Jai ___ 15 Common blessing 17 Undercover buster 18 Rhyming description for IHOP’s “Fresh ’N Fruity” pancakes 19 Safety warning for some kitchenware 21 Born

22 ___ Park, Calif. 23 Jots

26 Outer thigh stabilizers, in brief

29 See in court, say 30 Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel 31 Craze

34 Road Runner

cartoon sights 38 Goof

39 Warm and cozy

spots 41 Manning with two Super Bowl M.V.P. awards 42 Homeland of many 2010s refugees 44 What bugs are found in

45 Bug on a hook,

maybe 46 Ctrl-___-Del 48 On the loose 50 Big news involving extraterrestrials 54 Caddies’ suggestions 55 Some four-year degrees, for short 56 Kangaroo’s pouch 59 Loudly angry, as a group 62 Flight part 64 Rolls the dice and moves one’s token

65 Perfect dives 66 Parts of porch chairs 67 Airport postings, in brief 68 Italian wine region

Down

1 Lead-in to Francisco or Pedro

2 With 36-Down, astronomical rarity … or a hint to the circled letters 3 Alexander Hamilton’s nemesis

4 ___ Maduro, successor to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez 5 Fairy tale baddie 6 Sign gas

7 Gets tagged, say 8 Rwandan

minority 9 Banned insecticide 10 “Well, well, well!” 11 Sierra ___ 12 Some Millers 13 Bad eye sight? 16 Nabokov’s nos 20 Part of many German names 22 They act in silence

24 Big name in antacids 25 Meade’s opponent at Gettysburg 27 “Dr.” of hip-hop 28 Onetime Volvo alternative 32 Master’s seeker’s hurdle, for short 33 Suffix with oper35 Shipping lanes 36 See 2-Down 37 Browser history contents 39 “Freeze!” 40 Fedora, for one 43 McKellen who played Gandalf 45 One who won’t serve the average joe 47 Florida city on a bay

49 Back talk

50 Ear passage 51 Japanese city on a bay

52 ___ blanche 53 Prey for a brown bear 55 Smithereens 57 Actress Ramirez of “Grey’s Anatomy” 58 Cremation containers 60 Pull in

61 ___ Intrepid (New York City tourist attraction) 63 Letter after “X”