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-r-reat!”

29 Like a famed piper 31 Winning tic-tactoe 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-, 54or 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-the-bed 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 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 afterdinner 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 Energy-monitoring org. 66 Ordeal for many

H.S. seniors 67 What’s-___-face