NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

NO. 0818

ACROSS

1 Cleric’s closetful

5 One working on a tablet, say

11 Common creature in rebus puzzles

14 It’s on the hook

15 Google’s streaming device

17 Juice veggie

18 Paradise

19 Attempts to be a team player?

21 Accessory for dinner and a show?

22 Bland

23 Antique tint

25 Night class, perhaps, in brief

26 Parts of a spine

28 Kind of adapter

30 “Big” thing overseas

31 Smooths, in a way

34 Hive-minded?

38 Mars’ counterpart

40 Proverbial assessment for whether or not an idea can be taken seriously

42 Pay to play

43 It’s a start

45 Seal the deal

47 What a cellist may take onstage, in two senses

48 Tag along

50 Tricky billiards shot

52 Take the wrong way?

55 Break into parts and analyze

58 “This too shall pass,” for one

60 Game face?

62 Cheesy dish served “Detroit-style”

64 Hot tub shindig

66 In public

67 1972 Gilbert O’sullivan hit with a melancholy title

68 Captures a “poisoned pawn” in

chess, e.g.

69 Fig. whose first three digits were geographically based until 2011

70 Showing a conceited attitude

71 Rx amount

DOWN

1 “Grey’s Anatomy” airer

2 Half of the only mother/daughter duo to be nominated for acting Oscars for the same film

3 Targets of some waxing

4 Inures

5 Bounce off the walls

6 Country with more immigrants than

any other, informally

7 Fruit container

8 Kind of lane

9 Poison control remedy

10 Home of more than 16,000 slot machines

11 Fitness class inspired by ballet

12 “Cómo ____?”

13 Kind of alcohol that is a fermented biofuel

16 Litter maker

20 Bladders, e.g.

24 No longer done

27 Khan who founded Khan Academy 29 Many an auditor, for short

30 Xiao long ___ (soup dumplings)

32 More likely to get coal, perhaps

33 Prefix meaning “10” that’s associated with 12

35 Ambitious email goal, and a hint to four squares in this puzzle

36 Misters

37 Still shrink-wrapped, say

39 Jiffy

41 First X or O

44 State gemstones of Utah and Texas

46 Pat (down)

49 Almond confection

51 Brought up

52 Indian princes

53 Some tracks

54 Bits in a salad, perhaps

56 Small, oily fish

57 Face-plant

59 Stately estate

61 Large vat

63 Part of a Mad. Ave. mailing address

65 Back