The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Molded jelly

6 Pitch a tent

10 Snoozes

14 /

15 Dell competitor 16 Spoken

17 Charley ___

18 Actress Taylor of “Mystic Pizza”

19 Tidbit at a Spanish bar 20 Music conglomerate

that broke up in 2012 21 Receptacle carried

from a crime scene 24 Cosa ___

26 List-ending abbr. 27 Kind of pork on a

Chinese menu

30 On fire

34 Appropriate for all

audiences, as humor 36 Piano teacher’s assignment

38 Fort ___, N.J. 39 Neighbor of an Estonian

40 Coat for a cat

41 “No shoes, no shirt,

no service,” e.g. 42 Stick in a lake?

43 “Ad ___ per aspera”

(motto of Kansas) 45 Light purple 46 Wallace’s partner, in

claymation

48 Div. that manager Bobby Cox won every year from 1995 to 2005

50 Actor Driver of “The

Force Awakens” 52 Crowd chant to an

award honoree

55 The Silk Road and

others

60 Fish eggs

61 Morning TV co-host 62 Lawn mower brand 63 Mosque V.I.P.s

65 ___ smasher

66 City that’s home to the Viking Ship Museum

67 To the ___ (one way to

dress)

68 Odorous Le Pew 69 Beginning point for a

first flight

70 Singer of the 2012 #1 hit “Somebody That I Used to Know”

DOWN

1 Wan

2 Lovers running to each other may be shown in it

3 Way to get from Gare du Nord to Gare de Lyon

4 Magazine unit: Abbr. 5 Root for

6 Colombian metropolis 7 Tums target 8 Free-for-all

9 Paid part of a magazine

10 Kind of motel 11 Spirited steed 12 “Come to ___!” (gambler’s cry)

13 Refinery waste 22 Some military hospitals, for short 23 Establishment with a

brunch rush, maybe 25 Precisely

28 Weight 29 Often-forbidden maneuver ? as hinted at four times in this puzzle

31 Substance that decreases purity

32 Kunis of “Friends With

Benefits”

33 One high up on the corporate ladder, informally

34 Pipe problem 35 Shakespearean king 37 River to the Caspian 41 Opposite of set 43 Congressional worker 44 Begin, as a task 45 Running out

47 Title for Tussaud 49 112.5° on a compass:

Abbr.

51 Costume that might

involve two people 53 Former F.B.I. director

James

54 German state or novelist

55 Sand, in golf

56 Having your first shave or buying your first bra, e.g.

57 Each

58 Website links, for

short

59 Blow on a horn

64 “O Sole ___”