N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1

Buds that are very close

5 “For those who think young” sloganeer, once

10 Drainage

collector

14 Cookie that has been deemed kosher since 1997

15 Walled city

of Spain 16 Sports event in which athletes try to avoid being touched

17 Porky’s significant other

19 Gillette razor

handle

20 Make wise through experience 21 See

53-Across

23 Exceedingly 26 Letters at a

bar 27 Signal that a reply is coming in a messaging app

30 Accept responsibility for

31 Terrific

34 Diatribe

trigger

35 Official

proceedings 37 Attempt to

block

38 Original ___ 39 Make art like 53-/21Across (as suggested by this puzzle’s circled letters?) 41 Suffix with

quartz

42 Pat who

wrote “The Prince of Tides” and “The Great Santini” 44 Male

hedgehog 45 Homer’s neighbor on “The Simpsons” 46 Source of

some rings 47 Industry that encourages strikes?

48 Modest reply to a compliment 49 Biol. or

chem.

50 Oklahoma’s

state tree

53 With 21-Across, artist known to 39-Across pigments back and forth onto canvases

56 Melodic

passage

60 Removal from danger, informally

61 ___ station, Central London railway terminal

64 Long ride? 65 Suffered a

wipeout

66 Leaning to the right: Abbr.

67 Org. for Lt.

Columbo

68 Jetés, e.g.

69 One leaning

to the right

DOWN

1 Conks

2 Unoccupied 3 Cheese in a spanakopita 4 Boozehounds

5 Noted colonial pamphleteer 6 Señora

Perón

7 Small hard

seed 8 Moccasin,

e.g.

9 False friend in Shakespeare 10 Babe in the

Arctic

11 Somewhat 12 Chicago exchange, in brief

13 Like times that are the most expensive

18 Veterans

Day mo.

22 Daffy Duck,

notably

24 Indian

flatbread

25 Low-ranking

sailor

27 What you need some wiggle room to do?

28 Betelgeuse’s constellation

29 Where you might find love away from home? 32 Fragrant

compound 33 Like an oboe’s sound 35 Dreamboat

of a guy

36 Weep

37 Greeting in

Rio

40 “Be ___” (motto for Wikipedia contributors)

43 Pacific food

fish

47 Highly

decorated 48 “That’s cool, daddy-o!”

51 Taunts so as to get a reaction

52 Samovar

53 Come

together

54 Running

shoe brand 55 Gem that’s a woman’s name

57 Palindromic

guy’s name 58 Succeed and then some

59 “Recycle ___” (sign on a bin)

62 Narc’s org. 63 Tango

flourish