NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gradually develop, literally

5 Doozy

10 Gradually develop, literally

14 Cuba’s ___ Castro, brother of Fidel 15 Kind of group in chemistry

16 Like many indie films

17 Last monarch of the House of Stuart 18 Barber’s belt 19 Trademarked coffee holder 20 Sierra ___ (Mexican range, informally) 22 Comicdom’s “Queen of the Jungle”

24 Things you might save while driving 26 More aged, as some cheeses

27 Aptly named mascot of the 2000 Olympics 28 Jean-___ Picard of “Star Trek” 29 “Watch it!”

30 Boom producer, once: Abbr. 31 Leaves in the kitchen? 33 Developing phenomena literally depicted three times in this puzzle 43 One way an animal may be held 44 Shakespearean cries

45 The “Gateway to the West” 46 Chinwagging

48 In a bind

50 Google ___, service beginning in 2017 51 Name hidden in “oleomargarine” 52 Way off 54 Gradually develop, literally

58 Company originally founded as Blue Ribbon Sports 61 Commoner

63 “Let’s ___!”

64 Is the real deal 65 Kitchen gadget with an edge

66 French season 67 Butterfly, but not a caterpillar

68 Hole maker 69 Norse god of war 70 “Are you down for this?”

DOWN

1 Pop-pop

2 Farm storehouse 3 Punished for the weekend, perhaps 4 Beer containers 5 One might hit a very low pitch

6 Many an essential worker, for short 7 Put on

8 Game in which the object is to score 500 points 9 High-quality

10 Total phony

11 Some surgical tools 12 Enormous amounts to spend

13 “As far as I’m concerned …” 21 Sushi staple that

isn’t served raw 23 Put a fork in it! 25 Quantity contrasted with a vector, in physics

26 Most like a

wallflower

32 Foxy

33 Ink holder

34 Kind of power in

math

35 Early 2010s

36 You might make waves when you lie about this

37 Bunch of bits 38 Shaving canful 39 Fried food whose name translates to “breaded”

40 Big name in juice

pouches

41 All-time

go-between 42 Crestfallen 47 Fabled visitors to

49-Down, in brief 49 Southwest city in

1947 news 52 Screen display 53 Kerfuffle 55 Opposite of dry, to

a vintner 56 Evidencing physical

exertion

57 Suffer in the

summer heat 59 Spot for firing

60 “At Last” singer

James 62 Palindromic word in

classic poetry 64 Hem’s partner