Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Autonomous household helper since 2002

7 “I feel your pain!”

16 More bountiful

17 Inspiration for an often-repeated golf story

18 Patsy + French “to be” + Singe + Pop queen = Sales wonk

20 Be nosy

21 River at Arles

22 Leopold’s partner

in 1920s crime

23 Give a few laughs

24 1952 Winter

Olympics host

27 Boat pole + Old “once” + Pace + Essence = Chief planner

34 Study at the

eleventh hour, say

35 River past

Cincinnati 36 Sound emitted by

methane emitters

37 Cryer in movies

38 What you’re on when you’re crawling ... or a hint to parsing 18-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across

42 Flat … or inflate?

43 Part of a stable

diet?

44 Like some

practice courts

45 Sticky note,

maybe

46 Fiber source + Auto make + Red planet + Boxing family = Noted jazz saxophonist

52

53

All: Prefix

Cloudless

54 Early foe for 007

57 With 58-Across,

SEAL missions

58 See 57-Across

61

Interpret + Hockey’s Kovalchuk + Colorado ski town + Fit = On hand

66 Regards

67 Arrived on

horseback

68 “Wretched hive of scum and villainy,” per ObiWan Kenobi

69 Gently rocked

DOWN

1 Incline

2 Somali-born congresswoman from Minnesota

3 Grand Ole ___

4 ___ Day (Jan.

observance)

5 Slangy request at

a kegger

6 Playwright Miller

7 “Interwebs”

8 Gas pump 25 Begin to wake

attachment 26 Presidents

9 Quaff of gruit and Harrison, Hoover, wort, in days of Clinton and yore Obama, by birth

10 Drink “for two” in

song

11 Entitled Brit?

12 Open, in a way

13 Silver salmon

14 Bend it, like

Beckham?

15 Nikola Tesla,

ethnically

19 “Friends” friend

23 Bank drive-thru

convenience

24 Pearl Harbor

National

Memorial locale

PUZZLE BY SIMEON SEIGEL

27 Uninspiring or

low-paying work

28 Erupting with

noise

29 One getting credit

for seasonal gifts

30 Young inhabitant of the Hundred Acre Wood

31 Push on

32 “Ditto”

33 Fusses

38 Radio toggle

39 Lake bird 40 ___ Greiner, the so-called “Queen of QVC”

41 Co. making

arrangements

45 Tag, key or chip,

say

47 “Gourd”

48 James who plays Professor X in film

49 Thomas ___

Edison

50 Shows for a later

audience

51 Unhealthylooking

54 1/8 fluid ounce

55 Certain tow job 56 Takes some down

time

57 ___ the Great

(sleuth of kid-lit)

58 Comply

59 It may mean

squat to a dancer

60 Thrill

62 Right on the dial of a grandfather clock?

63 “Au Revoir ___

Enfants”

64 Big fashion inits.

65 ___-compliant (what public facilities must be, in brief)