The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Leader of the world’s smallest nation (“An Essay on Man”) 5 Procedure fee 10 Loaded (“Diving

Into the Wreck”) 14 Actor Wilson 15 Opposite of

mainstream

16 ___ breve (2/2

time) 17 Potentially insulting, for short

18 Prefix with meter,

to a versifier 19 Junket 20 Kathmandu

residents

22 Went

effortlessly 24 Situation of

intense conflict 25 Many a craft

brew, informally 27 Restless 28 Volatile state of

affairs

31 Press releases? 34 ___ Estby, Norwegian-born U.S. suffragist 35 Meal starter,

maybe

39 Sushi topper 40 Didn’t abstain 42 Inflation meas. 43 Cry of denial 45 Prod with a stick,

say 47 Westminster Abbey section hinted at by this puzzle’s architecture 51 Secretly loops in,

in a way

53 Big commotion 54 Major crop in

Nigeria 57 Address to click 58 1990s hit with the line “keep playing that song, all night”

60 Got the picture 61 Not cramped 63 Antitraffic org. 64 Prokaryotic model

organism 66 “S.N.L.” alum

Pedrad

67 Open about one’s

sexuality, say 68 Bass staff symbol 69 Drinking vessel that may have a lid (“Sacred Emily”) 70 Device that might say “In two miles …”

71 Coat put on when it’s cold? (“Mending Wall”)

DOWN

1 Use a hammer on (“In a Station of the Metro”)

2 One with a deed 3 Pig of children’s

TV

4 Sets up tents

5 ___ Field (Shea Stadium successor)

6 Not competitive 7 Summer hrs. in

Sonoma

8 Freight in flight 9 Vintage 10 All-important numbers for TV execs 11 Competitor’s

concession

12 This puzzle has 78

of them

13 Able to weather difficult conditions (“Channel Firing”)

21 Mekong Valley

language

23 Abu Dhabi’s grp. 26 New Orleans N.B.A. team, informally 29 Expression of

befuddlement 30 Ikea founder

Ingvar ___

31 Nest egg letters 32 Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65

33 Not leave

unattended 36 Aria, typically 37 “God Bless the

___”

38 Place to retire in a

hurry? 40 Groundbreaker? 41 Ages and ages 44 Discouraging

words

46 Critically

important 48 Vegan cookout

option

49 Occur in

conversation 50 “Well, darn!” 51 Incinerates (“To a

Mouse”) 52 Dubrovnik

resident

55 Bucks, boars and

bulls 56 Fleet-footed (“A

Maypole”) 58 “How Firm a Foundation,” for one

59 “Survivor” host

Probst 62 Customizable

Nintendo avatar 65 “Proud Mary”

band, in brief