The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Word said twice before “pants on fire”
5 Dressed (in)
9 Miso, for one
14 Guesstimate words
15 2021 Pixar film set on the Italian Riviera
16 Colorado ski resort
17 *Sincere intentions
19 Swiss green
20 How one might cower
21 Martial artist Bruce
23 What gives a doc inside info?
24 Artfully evasive
25 *One who’s “Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ his song,” in a 1958 hit
29 Vicinity
31 Round of a track race
32 King or Donkey follower
33 What a dog’s tail wag and bark might mean
36 Slackens, as rain
38 *With
39-Across, flower named for its distinctive shape
39 *See 38-Across
40 Cake: Fr.
43 Slowly enter, as a crowd might
47 Possible score after deuce 48 Escape ___ (group activity)
50 Yoshi of Mario games is one, for short
51 *Considerable amount of money, in an idiom
55 Vietnamese dish containing
46-Down
56 Brewery barrel
57 Tolkien creature
58 Chucked forcefully, in modern lingo
60 Foolish
62 Kara Zor-El’s identity in DC Comics ... or a punny hint to the answers to the starred clues
65 Matt of “The Martian”
66 “Really, though?”
67 Garfield’s canine buddy
68 Some dog-powered transports
69 Badgers
70 Filming locations
DOWN
1 Like the left brain, in pop psychology
2 Smelter’s material
3 Heretofore
4 Went by horse or car
5 Mild cigar
6 Him, in Paris
7 Do one’s part?
8 Mexico’s national flower
9 Kind of fitness test for K-12 students
10 Output from an eruption
11 Sender of unsolicited emails
12 French loaf baked in a rectangular mold
13 They’re typically happy in fairy tales
18 A ways away
22 Involve
26 Burn slightly
27 It has all the answers
28 Gave the green light
30 Agree
34 Org. sponsoring a school fund-raiser, perhaps
35 Hill with the 1998 #1 hit “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
37 Sandwich named for its ingredients
39 Depict by drawing
40 Spinoff clothing store for children
41 Kind of gland that produces cortisol
42 Reason for overtime
43 Enemy
44 Hazardous current
45 Get using will power?
46 Slurpy strands of food 49 Decides to join
52 Most student drivers
53 Russian refusals
54 “Quit ___ bellyachin’!”
59 “Me” problems
61 Minimal gesture of acknowledgment
63 “Party in the ___” (Miley Cyrus hit)
64 Common shape for a toy bank