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Wed, May 14, 2014 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Does damage to
  2. 6. Little handfuls, so to speak
  3. 10. Put the whammy on
  4. 14. Alternative to U.S.P.S.
  5. 15. Securely hide
  6. 16. Fig leaf wearer, in some art
  7. 17. Words of resignation
  8. 20. Son of 16-Across
  9. 21. Advisers to players' associations
  10. 22. Actor Cariou
  11. 23. "Dragnet" broadcast, for short
  12. 25. Dick Tracy's girl
  13. 27. Barista-operated gadgets
  14. 34. Old televangelism org.
  15. 35. Food item in quarter-pound sticks
  16. 36. "This is looking bad!"
  17. 37. "This is looking bad!"
  18. 39. Gives kudos
  19. 42. Like decalcified water
  20. 43. Instrument on the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood"
  21. 45. Sushi bar quaff
  22. 47. Part of many French surnames
  23. 48. Governor elected in a 2003 recall vote
  24. 52. Chicken-sized flightless bird
  25. 53. "Yay!"
  26. 54. Proof-ending letters
  27. 57. Bird in the crow family
  28. 60. Like poor losers
  29. 64. Punny description of the circled letters in 17-, 27- and 48-Across
  30. 67. "Pumping ___" (1977 docudrama featuring 48-Across)
  31. 68. "Whip It" band
  32. 69. What a metronome regulates
  33. 70. Historic resignee of 2013
  34. 71. Drinks at sidewalk stands
  35. 72. "Come on down!" announcer Johnny

Down

  1. 1. Takes an ax to
  2. 2. Friend en français
  3. 3. Long broadside
  4. 4. Bit of bad luck
  5. 5. ___-mo
  6. 6. "___ to differ"
  7. 7. Drug smuggler's courier
  8. 8. "Chop-chop!"
  9. 9. Bettor's strategy
  10. 10. Pres. Madison or Monroe
  11. 11. Golden god, say
  12. 12. File directory heading
  13. 13. Comics foes of Magneto
  14. 18. Old phone company nickname
  15. 19. Piece of Bacon or Lamb
  16. 24. Tour player
  17. 26. Biathlete's needs
  18. 27. Set of principles
  19. 28. Upside-down sleeper
  20. 29. SpongeBob's home
  21. 30. W. C. Fields persona
  22. 31. Horatian work
  23. 32. Send, as to a specialist
  24. 33. Old Air France fleet, for short
  25. 34. Face, slangily
  26. 38. Sharp-eyed sort
  27. 40. Brown who wrote "The Da Vinci Code"
  28. 41. Lampoon but good
  29. 44. "Spider-Man" director Sam
  30. 46. ___-surf (Google oneself)
  31. 49. Country with a gorilla on its 5,000-franc note
  32. 50. Did part of a slalom path
  33. 51. Staple Singers genre
  34. 54. Commercial swab
  35. 55. Two-tone coin
  36. 56. Barely enough to wet one's whistle
  37. 58. ___ the way
  38. 59. N.Y.S.E. debuts
  39. 61. Resistance units
  40. 62. Towed-away auto, maybe
  41. 63. School for Prince Harry
  42. 65. 180 degrees from SSW
  43. 66. Ear-related prefix

This puzzle was published on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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