The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 Cozy home in the woods

6 Cooking vessels for omelets 10 Ask for, as a cigarette,

informally

13 Putting to work

14 Box office dud

15 Lasso material 16 *High-energy person,

metaphorically

18 Means justifiers, it’s said 19 Nothing doing?

20 “Who’s there?” response 21 Corp. honchos

22 Melon with a yellow rind 24 Strategic maneuver 26 Ending with Oktober or gab 28 Rap culture

31 Obsolescent music

purchases, in brief 34 Low-pH liquids

37 Liberty Mutual alternative 38 Single, double or triple, in

baseball

39 Dog command … or a hint to the starts of the answers to the four starred clues 41 Org. for Penguins and Ducks 42 Popular sans-serif typeface 44 Geological rift

45 “You’ve got mail!” I.S.P. 46 Official order

48 Christmas song

50 Fate

53 Major blunders

57 Fliers that may consume thousands of insects in an hour

59 Pimiento-stuffed treat 61 ___ fide

62 Soothing succulent 63 *Documentation leading to

proof

65 Hieroglyphic bird

66 R&B great Redding

67 Tries to deice, as winter

roads

68 Bit of skin ink, informally 69 Cooped (up)

70 Totally lost

DOWN

1 Shaped like dice

2 Carne ___ (taco filling) 3 Football team in Buffalo 4 Blooming with foliage 5 Oxfam or Mercy Corps, e.g.,

in brief

6 [Gone … just like that!] 7 Like red-carpet celebrities 8 ___ Rae (Sally Field title

role)

9 Oration

10 *Some fine porcelain 11 Beehive or French twist 12 Kitchen description after

Spaghetti Sunday 15 A cook might have a secret

one

17 Ludicrous failure

23 Snoopy and Gromit,

for two

25 Turn clockwise, as a screw 27 Petty kerfuffle

29 Eight: Sp.

30 Opinion survey

31 Country east of Niger

32 In ___ straits

33 *“Don’t quit now!”

35 Narc’s org.

36 Leave astounded

40 Pitcher sent in to seal a win 43 Crops up

47 Panic! at the Disco genre 49 One navigating a maze,

maybe

51 Give joy

52 Basketball rebound play 54 Newborn horses

55 Join forces

56 It can be verde or roja 57 Worm on a hook, e.g. 58 “Sin City” co-star Jessica 60 Waistcoat

64 Airport grp.