NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Value of snake eyes in craps
4 Rules as a monarch
10 Difficult endeavor
14 Put on TV
15 87, 89 or 93, on a gas pump
16 With 25-Down, office request
17 Pro at tax time
18 In any place
20 Counterparts of compressions, in physics
22 Wear away
23 ___-X
24 “Get serious!”
25 Member of a Marvel Comics group
29 Divinity school subj.
30 T-X connection
33 Neighbor of the asteroid belt
34 Strip discussed in the Oslo Accords
36 Word with circle or ear
38 Nobel laureate Wiesel
39 Opinion pieces
41 Nashville venue, informally
42 Mork’s TV pal
44 Wait for a green light, say
45 Fire and fury
46 Peculiar
47 It doesn’t get returned
49 Less sincere, as a promise
51 Make black, in a way
52 El Al hub city
53 “Already?”
56 City straddling Europe and Asia
61 Foreboding
63 Judge Lance of the O.J. trial
64 Book after Chronicles
65 Surface
66 Grazing area
67 Drakes : ducks :: ___ : swans
68 Apt word to follow each row of circled letters
69 Subtext of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”
DOWN
1 Diplomat’s skill
2 Film editor’s gradual transition
3 Leftover in a juicer
4 Olympic sport with strokes
5 Repeat
6 Calif.-to-Fla. route
7 Elongated, heavily armored fish
8 U-turn from SSW
9 Opening word?
10 Rear admiral’s rear
11 ___ flow
12 Green-lit
13 Richard of “Unfaithful”
19 Coins of ancient Athens
21 Picked up on
24 Place to sing “Rock-a-Bye Baby”
25 See 16-Across
26 Bona fide
27 A narcissist has a big one
28 Relative of an épée
30 Concern for a debt collector
31 Brink
32 More sardonic
35 End of a line on the Underground?
37 Antivirus software brand
40 Divinity sch.
43 Logo with an exclamation mark
48 Annual French film festival site
50 Smoothed out
51 Deep sleeps
53 Particular in a design
54 Ricelike pasta 55 Belgrade denizen 56 Anatomical canal
57 Royal title
58 Outfit in Caesar’s senate
59 Pac-12 team
60 Mutual fund consideration
62 Little rascal