The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Library catalog listing after “author”
6 Ribbit : frog :: ___ : cat
10 Bit of land in the sea: Sp.
14 Author Asimov
15 Scrabble or Boggle
16 Challenging vegetables to eat with a fork
17 Harmonica
19 ___ and sciences
20 What “Yes, I’m willing” signifies
21 Contend
22 Talks effusively
25 Place to get some barbecue
28 It might be confused with a termite
29 Tanning lotion fig.
31 Pointy-leaved desert plants
32 Lo-o-ong bath
34 ___ Asia (China, Japan and environs)
37 Poor grades
38 Dummy
41 Bog fuel
42 Brontë’s “Jane ___”
43 Quick bite to eat
46 Tranquil
48 Grp. overseeing the World Series
50 Wildebeest
51 Negative repercussions
54 Individual
56 Capital of Georgia: Abbr.
57 “You don’t have to take responsibility for the mistake”
59 Tidy
61 Stand-in during a film shoot … or a hint to 17-, 25-, 38and 51-Across
65 Platform for a ceremony
66 Send off, as rays
67 Autumn bloom
68 Follower of hop and skip
69 “The lady ___ protest too much”: “Hamlet”
70 More recent
DOWN
1 Dickens’s Tiny _ _ _
2 Prefix with -therm
3 Letter after sigma
4 Gate closer
5 Sounds heard in canyons
6 People in charge: Abbr.
7 Raring to go
8 Neighbor of a Saudi and Yemeni
9 Passed
10 Brewery letters
11 Ones leading the blind, maybe
12 Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera, for two
13 Good things to have
18 Without assurance of purchase
22 Word after laughing or natural
23 Half of dos
24 Assert one’s ownership, as to land
26 “Hey ___” (Beatles hit)
27 Roughly 71% of the earth’s surface
30 Like many Rolex watches sold on the street
33 Natural ability
35 Apt letters missing from “_tea_th_”
36 Six years, for a U.S. senator
39 Electricity or water, e.g.: Abbr.
40 Assisted
41 Level off at a higher point
44 ___ Balls (chocolaty snack)
45 Attila the ___
46 Three-ingredient lunchbox staple, familiarly
47 Lightly touched, as with a handkerchief
49 Express sorrow over
52 Sports replay effect
53 Lost patience
55 Do something else with
58 George Washington’s chopping down a cherry tree, e.g.
60 Small recipe amt.
62 “As an aside,” in a text
63 Film director Spike
64 Flub