The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Discontinue

5 ___ cake ( dessert with a liquid chocolate core) 9 Skewered meat dish 14 Wander

15 “Victory is mine!”

16 Reply to “Grazie”

17 A ♭ ?

19 Feeling the need to scratch

20 Blanc who was known as “The Man of a Thousand Voices”

21 Tries not to be found 22 “Hello,” in Mandarin 23 Categorize

25 Give lip to

26 Where visitors take photos pretending to hold up a landmark

28 Not playing any songs, as a radio station 31 Rocker Lavigne 34 Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer

36 Never Have I ___ ( party game) 37 Shakespearean “Tsk!”

38 B ♭ ?

41 X – III

42 Berry rich in antioxidants ( and vowels)

44 Accessory that may denote military rank 45 Deep chasm

47 Smallest unit of purchasing power, in an idiom

49 Start of a spell

51 Liquid- ate?

52 “You can say that again!”

56 High- end Honda 58 Pancakes sometimes served with caviar

61 Apt anagram of “yea” 62 Put forward 63 B ♭ ?

65 Speak one’s mind 66 Cereal crop

67 Gave the go- ahead 68 Quick kisses

69 Occasion for blowing out candles, informally 70 Dudes DOWN

1 Field of play?

2 Double Dutch equipment

3 Racetrack shapes

4 Pay-___- view

5 City ___ ( place for a population sign)

6 Wowed

7 Botanical climber

8 Flik and Dot, in “A Bug’s Life”

9 Kind of cord or column 10 Skilled performer

11 E ▮ ?

12 Persian honorific 13 Fluctuate wildly 18 Skydiving or a ride on a roller coaster

24 Big name in nail polish 25 Whole host

27 Corroded

28 “Hi,” in Lanai

29 Lanai neckwear 30 Mother of Kim, Kylie and Kourtney

31 A ways away

32 The “V” of V. P.

33 Follow a composer’s notation ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle

35 Show stoppers? 39 “Winning ___ everything”

40 Fictional land ruled by Aslan

43 Winter Olympics facility

46 Naughty

48 Fills with delight 50 Anonymous creator of a painting sold at auction that subsequently shredded itself

53 A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity

54 “Sheesh!”

55 Tends to an overgrown garden

56 Each

57 Make do

58 Amorphous shape 59 Hamperful

60 Smallest bit

64 Daily record