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Mon, May 18, 2015 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Ostrichlike bird
  2. 4. Alternative to rock and scissors
  3. 9. T-bone, for one
  4. 14. Sought office
  5. 15. Girl who was a guest at the Mad Hatter's tea party
  6. 16. Bird on the back of a quarter
  7. 17. Column's opposite
  8. 18. "You forgot to water the plants," Tom said ___
  9. 20. Hunter constellation
  10. 22. Poems whose titles often start "To a ..."
  11. 23. Playwright Hellman
  12. 26. Savory filled pastries
  13. 31. Delivered, as a punch
  14. 33. Pop-up or foul
  15. 34. Prefix with cycle or color
  16. 36. Stared stupidly
  17. 38. Doorbell sound
  18. 39. Get the ___ of
  19. 41. Reaction to the Beatles in 1964 or Justin Bieber in 2010
  20. 43. Not many
  21. 44. Former F.B.I. director J. ___ Hoover
  22. 46. Lawful
  23. 48. Gridiron scores, for short
  24. 49. Salmon serving
  25. 51. Lowly, as labor
  26. 53. North Pole workplace
  27. 55. Sound systems
  28. 58. Pitcher
  29. 60. "Saturday Night Fever" music genre
  30. 61. "Oh, I just fed the alligator," Tom said ___
  31. 67. What crosswalks cross: Abbr.
  32. 68. The "P" of R.S.V.P.
  33. 69. Hit 1977 musical with the song "It's the Hard-Knock Life"
  34. 70. Meadow
  35. 71. Prom duds for guys
  36. 72. Fills, as a washer
  37. 73. Since Jan. 1

Down

  1. 1. Swashbuckling Flynn
  2. 2. Native New Zealander
  3. 3. "As much as I'd like, you're not getting any of my estate," Tom said ___
  4. 4. Hocking
  5. 5. "___ Baba and the 40 Thieves"
  6. 6. Poe's "The ___ and the Pendulum"
  7. 7. Sound effect in a long hallway
  8. 8. Baby Moses was found among them
  9. 9. Earth-shaking
  10. 10. Light brown
  11. 11. What might be cooked once over easy
  12. 12. Everybody
  13. 13. Item often kept on a chain
  14. 19. 500 sheets of paper
  15. 21. Suffix with schnozz
  16. 24. Eve's man
  17. 25. 2015 earthquake locale
  18. 27. Dept. of Labor arm
  19. 28. "Being a bit lazy, I prefer automatic," Tom said ___
  20. 29. Directed (at)
  21. 30. Worries
  22. 32. Jeans material
  23. 34. Piracy, e.g.
  24. 35. SiriusXM medium
  25. 37. Cuts into cubes
  26. 40. Guys' partners
  27. 42. Fats Waller's "___ Misbehavin'"
  28. 45. Microwaves, say
  29. 47. Colors, as hippies' shirts
  30. 50. Village
  31. 52. ___ Ben Canaan of "Exodus"
  32. 54. Part of a piano or bike
  33. 56. Duo quadrupled
  34. 57. "It pains me to hear that"
  35. 59. So-called "Biggest Little City in the World"
  36. 61. Choose (to)
  37. 62. Annual winter outbreak
  38. 63. Obsolescent means of communication
  39. 64. Hasten
  40. 65. Genetic stuff
  41. 66. Cornea cover

This puzzle was published on Monday, May 18, 2015 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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