NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 The tiniest bit 8 Windbag? 15 International medical group that won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, literally 16 Characteristic of an interminable slog, literally 17 Radical

18 Like some batteries and baseball teams 19 Good to go 20 Film character who says “Donkey, two things, OK? Shut … up”

22 The Three Lions, on World Cup scoreboards 23 Absolute concentration, literally 27 Digression

30 Is no more

31 Lite

35 “Think harder!” 36 Netflix heroine

Holmes 37 Alleviates pain a little … or what this puzzle does to certain squares for literal effect 43 Beach letters 44 Conscious of 45 Make lace 46 Charges lacking

merit, literally 51 Passes out in front of a T.S.A. agent? 53 Separates from the mother ship, say 56 “Same”

57 Bird that becomes an emotion if an “r” is added to the front

58 “I’ll take that as

___”

59 “How

entertaining!” 65 Mattel game with

colorful cards 66 ___ Excellency 67 Some adult nightclub entertainers, literally

68 Sch. with satellite campuses in Salt Lake City and Jerusalem 69 Hosp. locales 70 Drag one’s feet 71 Held a session

Down

1 Throws in 2 Tender

3 Exam for a future

OB/GYN

4 “___ not you …” 5 One of many in a

Seurat painting 6 Useful information, metaphorically 7 Swear off 8 Things that may stand near thrones? 9 Mushroom in

ramen

10 Sch. with a Big Easy medical center

11 Ad ___

12 Gawk at

13 “Say ___” 14 Kind of beetle 21 Tiny messenger 23 Together,

musically 24 Actress Harper of

“Tender Mercies” 25 Slavic name that’s an anagram of 12-Down

26 Zip

27 Some times, in

brief

28 Bar on a dish 29 Traits that trigger

repulsion

32 Some pedicure

treatments 33 Spider in a garage, informally? 34 Chief justice

before Hughes 38 Haunted house

sound

39 Cassette background noise 40 Greenhouse gas regulator, for short 41 “Not you, too?!” 42 Slay

47 Dude in a jazz

ensemble 48 Gaggles

49 Danish birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen 50 December drink 51 Source of more than half of the trout sold in the U.S.

52 Locale known for

its slang 54 Endpoint of the Great Wildebeest Migration

55 Of heavy build 60 Laugh track bit 61 Actress de Armas 62 Channel for a

cinephile

63 2/

64 Link letters