NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Gradually

develop, literally 5 Doozy 10 Gradually

develop, literally 14 Cuba’s ___ Castro, brother of Fidel

15 Kind of group in

chemistry

16 Like many indie

films

17 Last monarch of the House of Stuart

18 Barber’s belt 19 Trademarked

coffee holder 20 Sierra ___ (Mexican range, informally) 22 Comicdom’s “Queen of the Jungle”

24 Things you might save while driving

26 More aged, as

some cheeses 27 Aptly named mascot of the 2000 Olympics 28 Jean-___ Picard

of “Star Trek” 29 “Watch it!” 30 Boom producer,

once: Abbr. 31 Leaves in the

kitchen? 33 Developing phenomena literally depicted three times in this puzzle

43 One way an animal may be held 44 Shakespearean

cries

45 The “Gateway to

the West” 46 Chinwagging 48 In a bind 50 Google ___, service beginning in 2017

51 Name hidden in

“oleomargarine” 52 Way off 54 Gradually

develop, literally 58 Company originally founded as Blue Ribbon Sports 61 Commoner 63 “Let’s ___!”

64 Is the real deal 65 Kitchen gadget

with an edge 66 French season 67 Butterfly, but

not a caterpillar 68 Hole maker 69 Norse god of

war

70 “Are you down for this?”

Down

1 Pop-pop

2 Farm storehouse 3 Punished for the weekend, perhaps

4 Beer containers 5 One might hit a

very low pitch 6 Many an essential

worker, for short 7 Put on

8 Game in which the object is to score 500 points 9 High-quality 10 Total phony 11 Some surgical

tools 12 Enormous amounts to spend

13 “As far as I’m

concerned …” 21 Sushi staple that

isn’t served raw 23 Put a fork in it! 25 Quantity contrasted with a vector, in physics

26 Most like a

wallflower 32 Foxy

33 Ink holder 34 Kind of power in

math

35 Early 2010s 36 You might make waves when you lie about this 37 Bunch of bits 38 Shaving canful 39 Fried food whose name translates to “breaded” 40 Big name in juice

pouches 41 All-time

go-between 42 Crestfallen 47 Fabled visitors to 49-Down, in brief 49 Southwest city

in 1947 news 52 Screen display 53 Kerfuffle 55 Opposite of dry,

to a vintner 56 Evidencing

physical exertion 57 Suffer in the

summer heat 59 Spot for firing 60 “At Last” singer

James 62 Palindromic word in classic poetry

64 Hem’s partner