Across
1. Deg. for a museum worker : BFA
4. Loll : LOAF
8. Elapse : PASSBY
14. Dashboard part : OILGAUGE
16. Musical run with four sharps : ESCALE
17. Part played by women and girls? : XXFACTOR
18. Have hot cocoa on a winter day, say : WARMUP
19. U.S. president with a Nobel Peace Prize : CARTER
20. Take a breath : RESPIRE
22. Had for dinner : ATE
23. Blue ___ (Duke mascot) : DEVIL
25. Use a lot? : PARK
27. Overhaul : REDO
29. Area below “To:” in an email? : CCSECTION
32. Land in a Beatles song : USSR
35. Tide alternative : ALL
36. “Ghost” psychic Oda ___ Brown : MAE
37. Ones on set with 2009’s “Star Trek” director? : JJCREW
40. Any one of the 12 steps? : AALINE
42. Grant with the 1991 #1 hit “Baby Baby” : AMY
43. Battery size : AAA
45. “This round’s ___” : ONME
46. Group of buildings housing a King? : BBCOMPLEX
49. Recedes : EBBS
53. What Lot’s wife became : SALT
54. Common bacterium : ECOLI
57. Go bad : ROT
58. Group in the original “Ocean’s 11” movie : RATPACK
61. “Sure, that works” : OKFINE
63. Harrowing experience : ORDEAL
64. Lover of Cummings’s poetry? : EEREADER
66. Sasha ___, Beyoncé’s alter ego : FIERCE
67. Speedster’s undoing : RADARGUN
68. Owns (up to) : FESSES
69. Money to belong : DUES
70. Green-minded org. : EPA
Down
1. Freight train part : BOXCAR
2. Dwell (on) : FIXATE
3. Bruce Wayne’s butler : ALFRED
4. Intertwined : LACED
5. Eccentric : OUTRE
6. “Million Years ___” (Adele song) : AGO
7. Irony? : FERRIC
8. Places for parishioners : PEWS
9. “Now!” : ASAP
10. Libretto, for example : SCRIPT
11. “Spider-Man” director, 2002 : SAMRAIMI
12. Horse with evenly mixed black-and-white hairs : BLUEROAN
13. “Indeedy” : YEP
15. Gang pistol, in old slang : GAT
21. Jewelry designer Peretti : ELSA
24. Obsolescent TV attachment : VCR
26. Place to bounce a baby : KNEE
28. “___ House,” 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hit : OUR
30. Panache : ELAN
31. Quahog or geoduck : CLAM
33. Where clothes often rip : SEAM
34. Trade : SWAP
37. Nasty comments : JABS
38. Pan creator : JMBARRIE
39. Island group in the Aegean Sea : CYCLADES
41. Spike who directed “BlacKkKlansman” : LEE
44. Smart fellow? : ALEC
45. Tic-tac-toe loser : OXO
47. Bewhiskered mammals : OTTERS
48. ___ College, liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Fla. : ECKERD
50. Subject of a New York Times column until 2015 : BRIDGE
51. Study, informally : BONEUP
52. Chest bones : STERNA
55. Feminist writer Audre : LORDE
56. Giant furniture stores : IKEAS
59. Tempo : PACE
60. Hoppy mediums? : ALES
62. With 63-Down, distant : FAR
63. See 62-Down : OFF
65. What’s found in the French rivière? : EAU
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