The New York Times Crossword

No. 1230

ACROSS

1 ___ Wednesday 4 Doing battle

9 Item in a humidor

14 Hotel amenity down the hall 15 1940s-’60s singer Frankie 16 Win by ___

17 Butter substitute 19 Hereditary background 20 What locomotives and irons may give off

21 Critical, as a situation 23 One getting mostly A’s in school

27 Killer whale

30 King Kong, for one 31 China’s Mao ___-tung 32 Campus bigwig 33 Rainbow shapes 35 Obliterate

39 Beavers’ construction 40 Winning time after time … or where you might find 17-, 23-, 51- or 62-Across 42 Small inlet 43 Asparagus unit 45 Sharpen, as skills 46 Performs like Lil Wayne or Lil’ Kim

47 Baseball stat

49 Suffix with ball

50 “Or ___!” (end of an ultimatum)

51 Shiny kitchen wrap 56 Signifies 57 Obsolescent phone features 61 Rumble in the Jungle setting 62 Wallet alternative 66 Fragrant chemical compound 67 Standard Windows typeface 68 Feather stole 69 Outbuildings with garden tools

70 Gem in an oyster 71 Aardvark’s morsel

DOWN

1 Goals

2 “Shoo, kitty!”

3 On earth

4 Fort where Davy Crockett died

5 Driveway surface 6 Nintendo console 7 Newswoman Curry 8 Swamp plants 9 Merry-go-round 10 Properly arranged 11 Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. ___”

12 Actor Sean of “The Lord of the Rings”

13 Change, as a clock 18 Illustrator Wilson famous for his macabre cartoons 22 Six-time N.L. home run champ Mel

24 Indian bread

25 What the “O” of O magazine stands for 26 Place for a Ping-Pong table 27 6:1 or 7:1, e.g., at a racetrack

28 Harvest

29 Arrived

34 What “ibn” and “ben” mean, in names

36 Asia’s shrunken ___ Sea 37 Doesn’t guzzle 38 Simplicity 40 Spacecrafts circling the earth

41 Jay formerly of late-night TV

44 Like Brink’s trucks 46 Excavation find

48 Suffix with serpent 51 Woodworking tools 52 What a dog-walker holds 53 Bring together

54 Chart often with insets of Alaska and Hawaii 55 Peaceful, picturesque scene 58 Jessica of “Fantastic Four” 59 King of the jungle 60 Small quarrel

63 Metal from a mine 64 Vardalos of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” 65 Serving of corn