NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Like some face creams and serums, supposedly 6 Cost for a commercial 9 Class now known as

Family and Consumer Sciences, informally 14 W.N.B.A. star Taurasi with five Olympic gold medals 15 “___ qué?”

16 Over

17 Strip, as a ship 18 Extravagantly emotional 20 Rouse to action 22 Close behind, as a canine

23 N.L. West team, on scoreboards 24 Dearest partner?

27 Plant used to make mescal 28 “Go ahead, try this!”

32 Pear cultivar 35 Rumble in the Jungle promoter

37 Gal in Hollywood

39 Tube rider, e.g. 40 Port of Alaska 42 Word with memory or bike 43 Antilles resident

45 Finish off

46 Sign

47 1985 benefit concert watched by nearly two billion people

49 Fastidious roommate of classic TV

51 One way to administer a tranquilizer 53 To boot 56 Electronics whiz 59 Opposite of ruddy

61 Engaged in some amorous behavior 64 Creator of Heffalumps and Woozles

65 Sing ___

66 Swear words? 67 It has options for “cc” and “bcc” 68 Newsroom positions

69 With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues 70 True-blue

DOWN

1 Actress Uzo

2 Montana, once 3 Ankle bones

4 Still a contender 5 Putting in an enclosure

6 Loan letters 7 “Why did I do that?!”

8 Exhibit grandiloquence 9 Character that’s popular on social media 10 Instrument with a bell

11 Most frequent number, in math 12 “May the forces of ___ become confused on the way to your house”: George Carlin

13 Partner of Parks 19 Ritzy

21 Has a novel experience? 25 Sidestep

26 Lease

27 End of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” e.g. 29 Courage under fire

30 Cheese wrapped in wax 31 Abstainer’s amount

32 Largest TV network in the world, by number of employees 33 Word-of-mouth 34 Cortana : Microsoft :: ___ : Apple 36 Scraping (out) 38 What you get when you put your hands together?

41 Scottish noble in “Macbeth” 44 Ones always taking cover? 48 Military move 50 Crown covering 52 One of many in Indiana Jones’s possession 53 Quell, as concerns

54 First name on the Supreme Court

55 “Just peachy” 56 Chaucer chapter

57 Chimp who orbited Earth in 1961

58 Go kaput, with “out”

60 “The Beast” for the U.S. president, for one

61 No-goodnik

62 See 63-Down 63 With 62-Down, end of a college address