The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Like some face creams and

serums, supposedly

6 Cost for a commercial

9 Class now known as Family and Consumer Sciences, informally

14 W.N.B.A. star Taurasi with five

Olympic gold medals

15 “___ qué?”

16 Over

17 Strip, as a ship

18 Extravagantly emotional 20 Rouse to action

22 Close behind, as a canine 23 N.L. West team, on

scoreboards

24 Dearest partner?

27 Plant used to make mescal 28 “Go ahead, try this!”

32 Pear cultivar

35 Rumble in the Jungle promoter 37 Gal in Hollywood

39 Tube rider, e.g.

40 Port of Alaska

42 Word with memory or bike 43 Antilles resident

45 Finish off

46 Sign

47 1985 benefit concert watched

by nearly two billion people 49 Fastidious roommate of classic

TV

51 One way to administer a

tranquilizer

53 To boot

56 Electronics whiz

59 Opposite of ruddy

61 Engaged in some amorous

behavior

64 Creator of Heffalumps and

Woozles

65 Sing ___

66 Swear words? 67 It has options for “cc” and

“bcc”

68 Newsroom positions

69 With the circled letters, a hint

to solving seven Across clues 70 True-blue

DOWN

1 Actress Uzo

2 Montana, once

3 Ankle bones

4 Still a contender

5 Putting in an enclosure

6 Loan letters

7 “Why did I do that?!”

8 Exhibit grandiloquence 9 Character that’s popular on

social media

10 Instrument with a bell

11 Most frequent number, in math 12 “May the forces of ___ become confused on the way to your house”: George Carlin 13 Partner of Parks

19 Ritzy

21 Has a novel experience? 25 Sidestep

26 Lease

27 End of Arthur Miller’s “The

Crucible,” e.g.

29 Courage under fire 30 Cheese wrapped in wax 31 Abstainer’s amount

32 Largest TV network in the world, by number of employees

33 Word-of-mouth

34 Cortana : Microsoft :: ___ :

Apple

36 Scraping (out)

38 What you get when you put

your hands together? 41 Scottish noble in “Macbeth” 44 Ones always taking cover? 48 Military move

50 Crown covering

52 One of many in Indiana Jones’s

possession

53 Quell, as concerns

54 First name on the Supreme

Court

55 “Just peachy”

56 Chaucer chapter

57 Chimp who orbited Earth in

1961

58 Go kaput, with “out”

60 “The Beast” for the U.S.

president, for one 61 No-goodnik

62 See 63-Down

63 With 62-Down, end of a

college address