NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Where Mongolia is (4 letters)

5 Across: Scaredy-cat (4 letters)

9 Across: Leafs (through) (5 letters)

14 Across: Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize (4 letters)

15 Across: Berry at a smoothie shop (4 letters)

16 Across: Company behind the game Pong (5 letters)

17 Across: Mentally pooped (15 letters)

20 Across: 1960s service site, informally (3 letters)

21 Across: Common injury site for a basketball player, informally (3 letters)

22 Across: Thick, as plant growth (4 letters)

23 Across: Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam (14 letters)

28 Across: Commercial that may come with a jingle (7 letters)

29 Across: Took a chair (3 letters)

30 Across: Eager (4 letters)

31 Across: Hair parter (4 letters)

34 Across: Continue a subscription (5 letters)

38 Across: Barely passing grade (3 letters)

39 Across: Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across (7 letters)

41 Across: Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate (3 letters)

42 Across: Sometimes-floral organic compound (5 letters)

44 Across: Draped Indian garment (4 letters)

45 Across: ___-X (computer command to cut text) (4 letters)

46 Across: Crosses (out) (3 letters)

48 Across: Conjures up, say (7 letters)

50 Across: "If I'm being honest ..." (14 letters)

54 Across: Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna (4 letters)

55 Across: Opposite of 'neath (3 letters)

56 Across: Fools' mo. (3 letters)

57 Across: "A fight requires more than one person" (15 letters)

63 Across: "I'm available to help" (5 letters)

64 Across: Modern note-taking aid (4 letters)

65 Across: Plant in a marsh (4 letters)

66 Across: Spanish babies (5 letters)

67 Across: What a paper airplane icon may indicate (4 letters)

68 Across: Thing in a grove (4 letters)

1 Down: Big letters in home security (3 letters)

2 Down: ___ Paulo, Brazil (3 letters)

3 Down: Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks" (9 letters)

4 Down: Relief for an upset stomach (7 letters)

5 Down: Simple two-player card game (3 letters)

6 Down: Drink cooler (3 letters)

7 Down: Angry with (5 letters)

8 Down: Throw from a mound (5 letters)

9 Down: Butter square (3 letters)

10 Down: Any Olympian (7 letters)

11 Down: First name of Julius Caesar (5 letters)

12 Down: Artist Max (5 letters)

13 Down: Worshiper in a turban (4 letters)

18 Down: Texter's qualifier (4 letters)

19 Down: Cries in a fútbol stadium (4 letters)

23 Down: Barter (5 letters)

24 Down: Roof overhangs (5 letters)

25 Down: It may have a hard or soft shell (4 letters)

26 Down: Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons (5 letters)

27 Down: Paves the way? (4 letters)

32 Down: N.Y.C. subway letters (3 letters)

33 Down: Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper (5 letters)

35 Down: Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery (9 letters)

36 Down: Spearfishing bird (5 letters)

37 Down: People of SW Britain (5 letters)

39 Down: Without charge (4 letters)

40 Down: The Emerald Isle (4 letters)

43 Down: Like skydiving or cliff-diving (7 letters)

45 Down: Dashboard or bumper (7 letters)

47 Down: Place to put a coin (4 letters)

49 Down: Coup d'___ (4 letters)

50 Down: Joke with (5 letters)

51 Down: Like some wine barrels (5 letters)

52 Down: ___ and Clark (5 letters)

53 Down: Familiar narrative device (5 letters)

54 Down: Leave dumbfounded (4 letters)

58 Down: French possessive (3 letters)

59 Down: Catch some rays (3 letters)

60 Down: Bizarre (3 letters)

61 Down: "Golly!" (3 letters)

62 Down: Poetic tribute (3 letters)