The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Bunch of wolves or

cards

5 Busy with other things 11 The Beatles’ “Till

There ___ You”

14 Jai ___ (sport) 15 Francis of old TV’S

“What’s My Line?”

16 It clinks in a drink 17 Nurses, as a drink 18 Swamp in “Pogo”

20 In few words 22 Museum-funding org. 23 Like auto shop rags 24 1990s cartoon series featuring Yakko, Wakko and Dot

27 Org. featured in the documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” 28 Abbr. meaning “and

others”

29 Arizona college town 31 Some Best Buy buys,

for short

34 Doggie doc

36 Bones next to ulnae 39 Baby-boomer series

that starred Ken Olin 44 Indian stringed instru

ment

45 Around 50.25% of the world’s adult population

46 Letters before an alias 47 Meters and liters 50 Eve’s man

53 Pinnacle

55 Poet William who

wrote “The Prelude” 60 Play opener 61 Flamenco cheer 62 Reproductive cell for a

fern

63 South American rodent with soft, dense fur

67 One may be half

baked or brilliant 68 “___ soon?” 69 “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” author Joan

70 Must-have

71 ID in the form xxx-xx

xxxx

72 X- ray follow- up, per

haps

73 Deities

DOWN

1 Linguine or fettuccine 2 Not from Earth

3 ___ pants (cropped style popularized in the 1960s)

4 Instruction to Kate in a

Cole Porter title

5 “___ Te Ching”

6 Rub the wrong way 7 Justice Kagan

8 Reason for a mark

down

9 Disquieted state 10 Writing implement

filled with 37-Down 11 Popular online refer

ence

12 Amtrak express train 13 “So long!”

19 Tuba sound 21 Enjoy a meal

25 Dark shade of blue 26 Parts of a French

archipelago

30 Actor with the famous

line “I pity the fool!” 31 Six for a TD, e.g.

32 Ho ___ Minh City 33 Word before room or

comedy

35 Male cat

37 10-Down filler 38 “Hometown proud”

supermarket 40 Jeannette ___, first woman elected to Congress

41 Prefix between bi-and

quad

42 Cultural anthropolo

gist Margaret

43 Make ___ meet

48 Like some well- pitched

games

49 One side in eight-ball

pool

51 “How cute!” sounds 52 In a sulk 53 Agreements

54 Amazon speakers

introduced in 2014 56 Archaeologist’s find 57 Contest with roping

and riding

58 Cornered, in a way 59 Two are better than

one, they say

64 Public health agcy. 65 Mauna ___ (Hawaiian

volcano)

66 Journalist Curry