The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 1103

Across

1 Australian

avians 5 Absolutely

delights

10 “I didn’t see you there!”

15 ___ it down a

notch

16 “Too rich for

my blood!” 17 Company with

a spokeslizard 18 *Classic TV show starring a cowboy puppet 20 Hazardous

gas

21 Country whose stamps use glue that’s certified kosher

22 Take over responsibilities from

24 Sailor’s

song

26 Kind of card

for a phone 27 Harvard

rival

30 “How you

doin’?”

31 Opus ___ 33 Path between

buildings 35 Doggedly

pursued 39 Smooth-talking 40 *Nursery rhyme character seen in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” 42 Proust title

character 44 Ex-spousal

support 45 Designer dog that crosses a Pomeranian and terrier 47 Neutral shade 48 Flavor-boosting additive, for short

51 A little off 52 Opal or onyx 55 “That’s what they tell me, anyway” 58 Asinine 61 Country between Venezuela and Suriname 62 National mammal of the United States 64 *Very convenient … or, when read in six parts, a hint to the answers to the starred clues 66 Decorate 67 Had dinner at

home 68 Sight on the

back of a jeep 69 Some TVs and

cameras 70 Sharply

dressed

71 The apostrophe

in :’-(

Down

1 House ___

Committee 2 Chinese stirfry with pork, eggs and mushrooms 3 Open, as a gift 4 Four-door,

maybe 5 Approached

furtively

6 Rock subgenre 7 Jordan’s Queen

___

8 Fellas

9 Apple Pencil and Microsoft’s Surface Pen, for two

10 Fairy tale

baddie 11 *Industrialstrength 12 Treehouse or blanket fort, perhaps 13 Umberto who wrote “Foucault’s Pendulum” 14 Hither and ___ 19 So far 23 Mischief-maker 25 Gossipy

meddler 28 Washroom, in

Worcester 29 London

___ (tourist attraction) 32 Pastoral

poem

34 Place to get

highlights 35 *Peachy-keen 36 Prefix with

potent

37 Polish before

publishing 38 Alexandre who wrote “The Count of Monte Cristo”

40 Last name of two U.S. presidents 41 Practice of males mating with one female, but not vice versa, as in bees and ants 42 Health resort 43 “Incredible!” 46 A braggart has

a big one 48 Scoundrel 49 ___ Oh, first Asian woman to host a major awards show

50 Not as sunny 53 Actor Hawke 54 Mazda sports

car 56 Alternative to

the pill, briefly 57 Marriott

competitor 59 Road trip accommodations 60 Site with tech

tips 62 Undergrad

degs. 63 Wedding vow 65 E, in Morse

code