The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Criticize, in

slang 4 Something computers cannot write to or erase 9 Bottomless pit 14 “We ___ the

World”

15 Nice smell 16 Like some handwriting … or tipplers

17 Up to,

informally 18 Traveled in the front passenger seat

20 ___ at the

wheel

22 Lye, chemically 23 Rainbow’s

shape 24 “Heavens to

___!” 26 Two-part 28 Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics teams

31 Degs. for

C.E.O.s

35 Chap

36 Pants part that might need patching

37 Join a conference call, say 39 Silly 41 Monopoly properties you can’t put houses on, in brief

43 End of a lasso 44 Screen ___

Guild

46 Rating between excellent and fair

48 Cry in a soccer

stadium 49 Watermelon part that’s spit out

50 Main ingredient in a protein shake, maybe 53 Great Lake with the shortest name 55 Mommy’s

sister

56 Kind of connection port on a PC 59 Overly fussy,

say

61 Hit Broadway musical set partly in Paris, for short 64 What you might do to pass on an Interstate … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across 67 Letters before an assumed name 68 Sudden forward thrust

69 “___ could’ve

told you that!” 70 ___ center 71 Choice words? 72 Believer in Jah, informally 73 Pack animal

of Tibet

Down

1 Facts and

figures

2 Part of the eye 3 Stamp on a

milk carton 4 One tending a house during the owner’s absence 5 Stops by 6 Towel

holder 7 Eclipse or a black cat, some say 8 Ancient fortification overlooking the Dead Sea

9 Hi in HI 10 Spam spewer 11 Some quiet

exercise 12 Appendage on a cowboy’s boot

13 Align,

informally 19 Elvis’s

“___ Dog” 21 Always, to a

poet

25 Belgian river to

the North Sea 27 “Hilarious!,”

in a text 28 Assumed

name 29 Knight’s

weapon

30 Join the flow of

traffic 32 Cocktail with

tomato juice 33 Seating request

on an airplane 34 Mocking

smile 38 World’s largest

island nation 40 Lymph ___ 42 Tofu bean 45 Hogs 47 Luxurious 51 Doctor, ideally 52 Lbs. and ozs. 54 Wild party, in

slang

56 Sch. whose home football games used to include a live bear on the field

57 Avoid 58 Extracurricular activity for a musician 60 Molten flow 62 International

furniture chain 63 “The Suite Life of ___ & Cody” (bygone teen sitcom) 65 Amnesty International, e.g., in brief 66 Super ___ (1990s game console)