The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 ___ California

5 Frequent sights in Road Runner cartoons

10 Attempt

14 Vegetarian substitute for gelatin

15 “Silence is the most perfect expression of _ _ _” (line in a Shaw play)

16 Philosopher David 17 Despicable … or where this answer goes?

20 Paradises

21 Output of Santa’s workshop

22 Retort to 4-Down

23 Dandies

25 Moving around very nicely, thank you

26 Nonstop joker 28 Midday break

32 Merit badge holder

35 Nearly forever

36 What to expect between June and September in India

38 What’s what, in Italy

39 Sick … or where this answer goes?

42 “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord …,” e.g.

43 “Diamonds”

44 Habitat for bitterns and herons

45 ___ walk

47 University whose name is also a food

49 Levels

52 Knuckleheaded act?

56 Is indebted to

57 Side to be considered

61 “I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in ___”: James Brown

62 Latent … or where this answer goes?

65 Notable time 66 Shipping route

67 Burnish

68 Servius Tullius, e.g., in ancient Rome

69 Part of w.p.m.: Abbr.

70 One-eighty

71 Like some wines and humor

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1 Hon

2 Like sharp cheddar

3 Longtime actress co-starring in Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie”

4 Schoolyard denial

5 Winter hrs. in the Midwest

6 Fünf + drei

7 2017 Pixar hit

8 Where Paris took Helen

9 Holiday _ _ _

10 Heavy scissors

11 Possible result of overeating, informally

12 Roadies’ loads

13 Texas politico O’Rourke

18 “Poor venomous fool,” to Cleopatra

19 A hot one is timely

24 Place for a coin

25 Old woman’s home, in a children’s rhyme

26 Enlist again

27 Na+ and Cl– 29 Square

30 Tiny fraction of a min.

31 Shrink in fear

33 What dogs do in the spring

34 One of a pair of towel markings

36 Citi Field mascot

37 Drug trafficker, informally

40 City across the

Rio Grande from Juárez

41 Drive … or drive mad?

46 Drifted downriver, say

48 Not off key

49 Not drunk

50 Quaint contraction

51 “Stop worrying!”

53 Play defense against

54 Run up, as charges

55 Barely make it

58 Cries of discovery

59 Animated frame 60 Biblical twin

63 Indianapolis-to-St. Louis dir.

64 Female Jedi in “Star Wars”