The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Like court arguments 5 What travels on sound waves? 9 Heart’s home 14 Kind of bread 15 Part of the foot 16 Saddlebacks, tumps, knolls and the like 17 Lettered awards show host? 19 “Not a problem” 20 Celebrity dog trainer Millan 21 Articles of exercise equipment 23 Buster 26 Bonobo, for one 27 It’s a little longer than a foot 30 Lettered adversary in a battle of wits? 36 Bit of bar food 37 “You ready?” 38 Pulitzer winner Harper

39 The end 41 ___-eared 42 Retail figure 44 Bega who sang “Mambo No. 5” 45 Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land,” e.g. 48 Confirmation or quinceañera

49 Lettered home on the range when no one’s home? 51 Pickle

52 ___ milk 53 Rigging support 55 Sure thing 60 Stereotypical lumberjack feature 64 Around, for a date 65 Lettered school paper that’s a snap to write? 68 First-stringers 69 Ingredient in traditional medicine

70 Film shot 71 Prevails over 72 Ding-y thingy? 73 Hastened

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1 International grp. founded in Baghdad in 1960 2 Fog-induced frost 3 NCR devices 4 Fail miserably, unless you’re a chicken 5 [Kapow!] 6 “The Lord of the Rings” brute 7 ___-deucy 8 Van Gogh’s art dealer brother 9 1980s fad items advertised as “the gift that grows” 10 Ice pack?

11 Lohengrin’s love 12 Parking meter opening 13 Clicks that chide 18 Historically significant period 22 Singer known as the “Prince of Motown” 24 Magnavox rival 25 “You have my number!” 27 Muscled, slangily 28 Shout-out from the stands 29 A stroke ahead, in golf

31 Thick, liquidy clump 32 Notices 33 Ewing matriarch on “Dallas” 34 Pool competitions 35 Some R.S.V.P.s

40 Leading star in Disney’s “Enchanted” 43 Where elbows may collide 46 Ides of March reproach 47 Agent, briefly 50 Garfield, for one 54 First prez to have a 60-Across 55 Healing indicator 56 Low-calorie, in beer names 57 Field of expertise 58 Well-kept 59 Cabbage kin 61 Acronym of urgency 62 Leave no leaves, say

63 Like pink or purple hair 66 Fenway squad, in brief

67 “The best is ___ to come”