The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Carne ___

(taco option) 6 Ebbed 11 B’way’s “___

Miz”

14 See 4-Down 15 Backspace

through, say 16 Type 17 Refusing to

understand 19 Org. enforcing

RICO laws 20 Tack on

21 Like Prince William visà-vis Prince Harry

22 Beg 24 Language from which “bandana” comes

25 Strip sails and

ropes from 27 Put in a movie

role

30 Org. supporting mom-and-pop stores 32 Targets of

cleanses 35 Bothered a lot 37 When a football

might be hiked 39 Through 40 1989 Spike Lee title offering good, if vague, advice 43 Runner’s

midsection? 44 Muchrequested airplane seat 45 Actress Sohn

of “The Wire” 46 Samovar 48 One of football’s Mannings 50 Jennifer who wrote “A Visit From the Goon Squad”

51 Fort ___, N.C. 53 Aliases,

informally 55 Derby cocktail 57 Change

59 ___ page (help

source) 62 Actress de

Armas

63 One of a

résumé pair? 66 To wit: Abbr. 67 Motorola

phones 68 Spanish 101

verb

69 Bit of firefighting equipment 70 Romeo and

Juliet had one 71 Cockpit array

Down

1 Actress Jessica 2 Germ 3 Surrounded

by

4 With 14-Across, longtime CNN host

5 Rile up 6 Co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. and author of “The Souls of Black Folk” 7 Works in the Galleria degli Uffizi

8 Island nation that’s the world’s smallest republic 9 Certain curve 10 Strong connection, as to one’s land 11 Animating 12 Actor Idris with

an O.B.E. 13 Lose traction 18 Alero or Aurora, informally 23 Year in the

reign of Nero 24 Six-sided state 26 Abbr. on a

wrapper

27 Air Force Academy student 28 Make amends

(for)

29 Fires up? 31 Relationship of the circled letters to the apt words they connect to in this puzzle 33 “American ___

Warrior” 34 Scientist who said “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark” 36 Rend

38 What’s new? 41 Part of a wedding ceremony 42 Digs up, in a

way

47 Suffix with

architect 49 Store with a one-way route through its cavernous space

52 Like many

bridal veils 54 Like paths of

missiles 55 Language that may be used in 56Down

56 See 55

Down

58 Much mail:

Abbr. 59 Cheese in a

Greek salad 60 Seriously

uptight 61 Periods in the

N.B.A.: Abbr. 64 It might be

jacked up 65 Forensic

abbr.

No. 0928 Meghan Morris