The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Perspective 5 Police alert,

for short 8 Candy often used in science fair volcanoes 14 Proactiv target 15 Sound that might be heard in a 16-Across 16 It’s for the birds 17 “Sanford and Son” star of 1970s TV 19 High-end

shampoo brand 20 General reply? 21 Put one’s

foot down 23 Subject of some “management” courses 25 Warning letters

next to a link 29 Had in mind 33 Rowed

36 Equal

37 Brand in the

pet food aisle 38 Shot blocker? 40 Zealot 42 Grenache,

for one

43 BP rival

45 ___ Domini 46 Coastal

indentation 47 “The Times They Are a-Changin’” songwriter 48 Big name in vacuum cleaners 49 Branches 51 Hostility, in British slang

53 Collar

attachment 56 Cuneiform

discovery site 61 Sister chain

of Marshalls 64 Beer brand whose logo hints at the answers to 17-, 19-, 38-, 43- and 61-Across 66 Dormmate,

e.g.

67 Artist Jean who pioneered in Dadaism 68 Relative of

a tangelo 69 Brewers’ fermenting agents

70 Like some humor or spells

71 On the

briny

Down

1 “Your mileage

may ___” 2 Drink brand with a polar bear symbol 3 Objectives 4 Unites

5 ___ squash 6 Curse

7 Prime theater

location 8 Oodles of 9 Still

10 U.S. president who becomes the president of future Earth on “Futurama” 11 Burden

12 Sch. in Tulsa 13 Part of

GPS: Abbr. 18 Decree 22 Making it big 24 Tourist transports in Venice 26 Fifth-century invaders of England 27 California city whose name is Spanish for “ash tree” 28 “It’s a date!” 29 City 20 miles NW of 27-Down 30 Quack medicine offering 31 Culmination of a challenging H.S. course 32 Manhattan neighborhood next to the East Village 34 Black-hearted 35 Degree of expertise in martial arts

38 West Point

team 39 Discovery of Wilhelm Roentgen, which earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901

41 “So what?” 44 Second-largest Arabicspeaking city after Cairo

48 Taj Mahal

feature 50 Poetry

competitions 52 Hoarse

54 Way out 55 Lines of a plane 57 Light blue 58 Bearskins,

maybe

59 River along which 56-Across is located

60 It’s on one side of the Urals 61 Take a shot 62 Average guy 63 Extinct relative

of the kiwi 65 Hockey

legend Bobby

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