The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Many a rescue 5 Bit of wisdom 10 Playful sound while tapping someone’s nose 14 Brainchild 15 Buildup of tanks? 16 Atmospheric glow 17 Barrel of monkeys 19 Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world’s flags 20 Catalog 21 Person you might see in August? 22 Whac-A-_ _ _ 23 Word after high or seven

26 Rice option 28 With 50-Across, blue streak 32 Shapes up 35 Black, in verse 36 Barrier in certain zoo enclosures 38 Dora the Explorer’s cousin 39 Bit of ink 40 Leather band used to sharpen razors 42 Landon who lost in a landslide to F.D.R.

43 Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell

46 Eye affliction 47 Voter on a failed 2014 independence referendum 48 Ghost in the machine

50 See 28-Across 52 Partner of dreams 54 Life-or-death 55 Blue-green shade 57 Florida politico Demings 59 “Toodles,” but more formally 63 Rip

64 Knock me down with a feather 67 Start of a fairy tale 68 Actress Messing 69 What the fourth little piggy had 70 Batik worker 71 Like many theater camp productions 72 Shred the _ _ _ (skiing slang for conquering difficult terrain)

DOWN

1 Skirt covering the knees 2 Noodles often served in broth 3 Oversee, as a flock 4 Adopts 5 Insert a token, say 6 Sight at Rocky Mountain National Park 7 Excited 8 Accumulated, as charges

9 Goes by foot, informally 10 Rice option 11 Unobtainable

12 _ _ _ motor skills (baby’s development) 13 Trim

18 C.T.O. or C.F.O. 24 Paper pushers? 25 They can be parting 27 Captained 28 Sting operation, e.g.

29 “A Promised Land” author, 2020

30 “No way!” 31 “Mostly harmless” place, per “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” 33 Home with a dome

34 Giant head? 37 Messed (with) 41 Spa treatment, informally 44 Burn like embers 45 Chump 47 Playoff ranking 49 One side of the Hoover Dam 51 Get, as a quick lunch

53 More even-keeled 55 Walked (on) 56 Tiny, informally 58 Orientation inits. 60 It makes up about a third of our planet’s mass

61 _ _ _ Mode,

“no capes” advocate in “The Incredibles” 62 Operator

65 B&O and others 66 “Huzzah!”