NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Green spot in a city

5 Top dog

10 ___ threat

14 Monopoly token replaced by a cat in 2013

15 Like the boondocks

16 “… ___ the twain shall meet”

17 Group of winners at a film awards show?

19 Reminder of a past injury

20 Discharges

21 Not real royals, maybe

23 Executed, as a program

24 Team ___

26 Something to take up or let out

27 Target for William Tell?

33 Singing Crow

36 Cause of some breathing problems

37 F-, for one

38 Command-C, on a Mac

39 Turn into a film, e.g.

41 To boot

42 Comedian Wong

43 Personification of Earth, in Greek myth

44 Tiny parts of archipelagoes

46 Where séance leaders get their degrees?

49 Unfinished crusade of the 1970s, in brief

50 Inning : baseball :: ___ : curling

51 Eggs in a lab

54 Art of bone carving

59 Green spot in a desert

61 Actors who don’t play their roles subtly

62 Lo-o-ong lecture from a parent?

64 Early Ron Howard role

65 “___ you a little short for a stormtrooper?”: Princess Leia

66 Do more than just check out

67 Fling

68 The Rockies, e.g.

69 Drink from a Viking’s goblet

DOWN

1 Itinerant musician with a flute

2 Patisserie allure

3 “The Kiss” sculptor

4 Heal, as a broken bone

5 Word after long or strong

6 One-named ancient satirist … or a Pokémon character

7 Baby buggy in Piccadilly Circus

8 Hinged bit of hardware

9 Cher, voice wise

10 Part of a foot

11 Convert into a higher-level language, as computer code

12 King of English theater

13 Muffs

18 Crime of great interest

22 Carpet type

25 Arabic “peace”

27 Alan Paton’s “___, the Beloved Country”

28 Oscar ___, player of Poe Dameron in “Star Wars” films

29 One who calls people out

30 Statement to a chair of a meeting

31 In need of directions

32 Grandson of Adam and Eve

33 Almost every get-rich-quick scheme

34 Spot in a green

35 Outer layer of skin

40 Throw shade at

41 Monopolist’s portion

43 Territory ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1898

45 Vice city

47 Van Gogh work that in 1987 became the most expensive painting ever sold

48 Chopping

51 ___ orange

52 Home on the Riviera, say

53 Didn’t contain one’s curiosity

54 Attempt

55 Aria da ___

56 Symbol on an “8” key

57 Juno’s Greek counterpart

58 Mideast’s Gulf of ___

60 Itsy-bitsy bit

63 Tribe for which the 45th state is named