The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Data stores

7 Value which for Apple stock is $0.00001

10 Large chunk of cash

13 Not having wrinkles

15 “True Detective” channel

16 Email address ending

17 Gist

18 Plate umpire’s call

20 Mythical places

21 1999 rom-com with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant

23 Fam. tree member

24 “I guess you missed the ___”

25 Loved ___

26 Pablo Neruda’s “___ to Sadness”

28 Pasta shape

31 Like the 70s vis-à-vis the 60s or 50s, say

34 Bad person to do a deal with

35 Honorific for 69-Across

38 Board game with black-andwhite pieces

40 Units of cookies

42 Rock subgenre

43 Part of a sword

45 State capital founded during a gold rush

46 Tricky situations

47 N.Y.C. subway inits.

48 Superfood sometimes called “purple gold”

51 Mother, in Mumbai

53 “Darn!”

57 What a civilization like India or Egypt has 60 Pre-photocopy copy

61 Info for a bibliophile

62 Act as if

64 Dream stage

65 Deuce, e.g.

66 Chip away at

67 Number of colori on the Italian flag

68 On the ___

69 Icon born 10/2/1869 … with a hint to three squares in this puzzle

DOWN

1 No longer ill

2 One end of a battery

3 What a crossword has that a sudoku doesn’t

4 It’s taxed at the maximum rate

5 Quashes

6 “Didn’t I tell you?” 7 Negative space?

8 Border

9 Indian flatbread 10 Prefight ritual

11 Confuse

12 Argument settlers of old

14 One with possible Viking ancestry

19 Feature of the Himalayas

22 Divine message, for some

24 King Arthur’s magician

27 Indian city of

28 million

29 Preserver : Vishnu :: Creator : ___

30 Eightsome

31 Misfortune

32 Device required by law to be outfitted with Braille

33 Density symbol

35 “That’s all ___ wrote”

36 Stimpy’s TV pal

37 “There ___ God!”

39 Inherited wealth

41 Popular allergy medicine

44 Emperor of Russia

46 Mega-success

48 Having perked-up ears

49 Tech worker

50 Japanese art genre

52 Genre

54 Tweak, say

55 Sophomore’s grade

56 “Yes from me, too”

58 Poses

59 Work hard

60 Prefix with tarsal

63 Tease, with “on”