The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Cozy home in the woods
6 Cooking vessels for omelets
10 Ask for, as a cigarette, informally
13 Putting to work
14 Box office dud
15 Lasso material
16 *High-energy person, metaphorically
18 Means justifiers, it’s said
19 Nothing doing?
20 “Who’s there?” response
21 Corp. honchos
22 Melon with a yellow rind
24 Strategic maneuver
26 Ending with Oktober or gab
28 Rap culture
31 Obsolescent music purchases, in brief
34 Low-pH liquids
37 Liberty Mutual alternative
38 Single, double or triple, in baseball
39 Dog command … or a hint to the starts of the answers to the four starred clues
41 Org. for Penguins and Ducks
42 Popular sansserif typeface
44 Geological rift
45 “You’ve got mail!” I.S.P.
46 Official order
48 Christmas song
50 Fate
53 Major blunders
57 Fliers that may consume thousands of insects in an hour
59 Pimiento-stuffed treat
61 ___ fide
62 Soothing succulent
63 *Documentation leading to proof
65 Hieroglyphic bird
66 R&B great Redding
67 Tries to deice, as winter roads
68 Bit of skin ink, informally
69 Cooped (up)
70 Totally lost
Down
1 Shaped like dice
2 Carne ___ (taco filling)
3 Football team in Buffalo
4 Blooming with foliage
5 Oxfam or Mercy Corps, e.g., in brief
6 [Gone … just like that!]
7 Like red-carpet celebrities
8 ___ Rae (Sally Field title role)
9 Oration
10 *Some fine porcelain
11 Beehive or French twist
12 Kitchen description after Spaghetti Sunday
15 A cook might have a secret one
17 Ludicrous failure
23 Snoopy and Gromit, for two
25 Turn clockwise, as a screw
27 Petty kerfuffle
29 Eight: Sp.
30 Opinion survey
31 Country east of Niger
32 In ___ straits
33 *“Don’t quit now!”
35 Narc’s org.
36 Leave astounded
40 Pitcher sent in to seal a win
43 Crops up
47 Panic! at the Disco genre
49 One navigating a maze, maybe
51 Give joy
52 Basketball rebound play
54 Newborn horses
55 Join forces 56 It can be verde or roja
57 Worm on a hook, e.g.
58 “Sin City” costar Jessica
60 Waistcoat
64 Airport grp.