The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Sweet tubers 5 Missouri city,

informally 10 Suffix with

narc14 Precious stone that has been found on Mars (fun fact!) 15 Start of a quip attributed to British comedian Ken Dodd 16 Sensei’s

teaching 17 Modern lead-in

to call 18 Speleologist 19 Leggy wader 20 Part 2 of the

quip

23 Pipe bend 24 BBC ___ 25 Bundle up 27 Pricy

wristwatch 29 Letters on a

lotion bottle 32 Buffalo hockey

player

33 1975 Best Musical Tony winner, with “The”

35 “You betcha!” 37 It’s not free of charge

38 Part 3 of the

quip

43 Howe’er 44 School of

whales 45 Crackerjack 46 “Baloney!” 49 Y feature 51 Just as planned 55 Potential Emmy

nominee 57 Academic

address ender 59 She-bear, in

Baja

60 Part 4 of the

quip

64 Become too sweet after a while, say 65 John with 56 Top 40 singles in the U.S. 66 Overly fussy 67 Thomas Edison’s middle name

68 End of the quip 69 Entwined

70 ___ greens 71 Declared on a

stack of Bibles 72 1974 C.I.A.

parody

Down

1 The New ___

(weekly)

2 Creed of

Hollywood

3 Old telephone service provider, informally 4 Sow chow 5 Send to attack 6 River crossed by Westminster Bridge

7 Mud

8 What’s within

your range? 9 Otherworldly 10 Algonquian

language 11 Locale of many cookie-cutter homes 12 1,049-mile race 13 Pot-scrubbing

brand

21 Cause of a bee

sting’s sting 22 Reply: Abbr. 26 Implement for confident crossword solvers 28 Source of the milk for pecorino Romano cheese

30 Little person 31 Bank charge 34 Quick turn 36 “Harper Valley

___” (1968 hit) 38 Town in two Dr. Seuss books

39 Kind of off-season baseball “league” 40 Identify on

Facebook 41 Jamboree

attendee

42 QB

Roethlisberger 43 Demolition

letters 47 Spend the

night in

48 The ___ Ridge Boys (country/ gospel quartet) 50 Many an ex-president’s book 52 Needing quarters, maybe

53 John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter served in it 54 2018 Super Bowl champs 56 Navigation

hazards

58 Al ___

(pasta order) 61 A little

dense

62 Other, in

Acapulco 63 Hems’ partners 64 Where a truck

driver sits