The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Facts and figures 5 Snacks for aardvarks 9 Boggle, Scrabble and others 14 Makes a mistake 15 ___-chic (hippieinfluenced fashion) 16 “Workers of all lands ___” (phrase on Marx’s tombstone) 17 South American palm with a black-purple berry 18 Make, as money 19 Put into law 20 Los Angeles venue named for the star of “12 Angry Men” 23 Do needlework 24 Lots and lots 25 Network with an eye logo 28 Yellowfin tuna 30 Disney+ series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 34 Animals that may be subject to an apartment restriction 36 What electric cars don’t need 37 Apartment you own 38 “Butch Cassidy” and “The Sundance Kid,” for two 40 “The Canterbury Tales” author 42 Identical copy 43 Promise-to-pay letters 44 Stadium seating section 45 First car from a Japanese manufacturer to be made in the U.S. (1982) 49 “Dear old” family member 50 Letter before tee 51 Eye affliction 52 Take advantage of 54 Creator of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” … or, when said aloud, a hint to the starts of 20-, 30 and 45-Across 59 Squabble 62 Faux-humble response to a compliment 63 Swanky party 64 Oyster’s prize 65 Gospel singer Winans 66 “Battle ___ of the Republic” 67 Kick out 68 Talk back to 69 Made off with

Down

1 Not able to hear 2 With the bow, in music 3 “So, anyway, ...” and “On that note ...,” e.g. 4 Parenthetical comment 5 Help with a heist 6 Trevor of “The Daily Show” 7 Clothes, slangily 8 Beethoven’s “Moonlight ___” 9 Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece 10 Brontë sister 11 Soccer star Hamm 12 List-ending abbr. 13 Where a TV show is filmed 21 Reaction to cuteness 22 “Mazel ___!” 25 Annual celebration of Mexican heritage 26 Neighborhood grocery store 27 Made sounds while sound asleep 28 Sugarhill Gang song with the repeated line “Jump on it!” 29 Greetings 31 How old you are 32 “Illmatic” rapper 33 First Pixar film with a Black protagonist 35 Something brought home unintentionally from the beach 39 Something brought home intentionally from the beach 40 Dove’s sound 41 “Ben-___” 43 Chilled drink that might be served with a lemon wedge 46 From ___ Z 47 Skeptical sorts 48 “Oh, that was so obvious!” 53 One of the five senses 54 Word that conveys skepticism when its vowel sound is dragged out 55 Rainbow shapes 56 Some loaves or whiskeys 57 Ticklish Muppet 58 Went down, as hearts or ships 59 Animal aptly found in “banana peel” 60 “Oedipus ___” 61 Thing to mind between the train and platform

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