The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Prepared, with “up”

7 Snake in ancient Egyptian art

10 Crowdsourced map app

14 Final syllable of a word, in linguistics

15 Singer Rawls 16 Wide-eyed with wonder

17 Oxymoronic stage name for the D.J. Norman Cook

19 Puddle-jumper?

20 “Phooey!,” to Shakespeare

21 Frontiersman Wyatt

22 Admit, with “up”

23 Rashida Jones’s role on “Parks and Recreation”

25 Unquestioning followers, in slang

27 First three words famously said by Kamala Harris to Joe Biden upon winning the 2020 election

30 Gradually increased

33 Hard-to-find game cards, in collector’s lingo

35 “Am I the problem here?”

36 Reverberate

39 In ___ words

41 Sound likely not made by a Tyrannosaurus rex, despite what “Jurassic Park” would have you believe

42 Welcomed at the door

44 Streaming service rebranded with the suffix Max in 2020

46 Fragrance

48 Singularity

52 Gentleman: Sp.

54 “The Simpsons” storekeeper

55 Vodka brand that sounds like a toast

57 Reassuring words after a fall

58 ___ Jose, Calif.

59 “Ple-e-e-ease?”

60 Ones with minority views

64 Oodles

65 Before, poetically 66 Act as a gobetween

67 Icy hazard at sea

68 When doubled, a 2010s dance fad

69 Object represented visually twice in this puzzle

DOWN

1 Belly laugh

2 Julia Louis-dreyfus role on “Seinfeld”

3 Go to

4 ___-eye steak

5 Punk offshoot

6 Word with latter or red-letter

7 Deity of Islam

8 Fancy evening party

9 Lifted weights, informally

10 Breakfast appliance

11 Shook on

12 Places where you might find okapis and gnus (besides crossword puzzles!)

13 ___ Benedict

18 Six-line stanza

24 Vaccine approver, in brief

26 Newspaper parts: Abbr.

28 Debris from welding or power drilling

29 Heavy metal band whose name includes an actual heavy metal

31 Actress Thurman

32 According to

34 Movie theater reproof

36 Mentalist’s power

37 Third letter in an alphabet song

38 Judge Judy title

40 Kindle purchases

43 Birth control option, for short

45 “I hadn’t thought of it that way”

47 New York city where Mark Twain is buried

49 Enter gingerly, as a hot tub

50 Few and far between

51 Slowly phase out, in lingo

53 “Look for yourself”

55 It may cover a cut 56 Feminist Millett who popularized the concept of the patriarchy

61 Stately tree

62 Actress Long

63 @, as a verb