NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Science class adjuncts 5 Tyrannical

10 Losing casino roll 14 Double-apostrophe contraction

15 Tough watchdog 16 Old Italian capital 17 Autobiography of a “Star Trek” doctor? 19 Mental flash 20 Afternoon affair 21 Rib

22 Audre Lorde or Lord Byron

23 Kill off a major “Back to the Future” character? 27 Neighbor of Borneo 28 Zero

29 Pal for Pierre 30 Mates for does 33 Birthstone for some Scorpios 37 Typesetter’s choice 39 Attach, as a button 41 Languish

42 English class assignment

44 Part of a baker’s dozen

46 It might sit on a sill to cool

47 Brand of cooking spray

49 Lament about one’s sorry appearance 51 Film star Danny hurriedly leaving the set?

56 Mayberry sot 57 Bemoan

58 Medit. country 59 Something to watch on the telly, with “the”

60 Help film star Steve recover from an action sequence? 65 Marine menace 66 Man in a cast 67 After-Christmas event

68 Bleacher feature 69 Impetuous

70 Give off

1 Justin Trudeau’s party: Abbr.

2 End of a sweet drink?

3 Niacin and riboflavin

4 Five Nations tribe 5 Lunch meat

6 Org. associated with the Westminster show

7 “___ and the Flash” (2015 Meryl Streep movie) 8 Stone-faced

9 New York’s ___ Planetarium 10 Bygone street sound

11 No longer plagued by

12 Spinning

13 Like some fertilizer 18 Singer Brooks 23 Jumbo combatants 24 Some “traditional” investments, for short

25 Got along

26 Sch. on the bank of

the Charles 27 Unlikely to cause

controversy 31 Number of words in the shortest verse in the Bible (John 11:35)

32 Kind of boom 34 Wildly improbable

goal

35 Ouzo flavor 36 Scrabble

10-pointers 38 Restaurant with

small dishes

40 Like an arm that’s been slept on too long

43 Pilot’s problem 45 ___ Aziz, Iraq War

figure

48 Singer Carey 50 Improper

application 51 Unpaid factory

worker

52 Wombs

53 Family girl

54 New Mexico’s state

flower 55 Assembles

61 “Bon” word 62 Show sorrow

63 ___ Lilly & Co. 64 Stocking material