NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Powerful singer’s asset, informally 11 Prophet in the

Book of Mormon 15 Gelato alternative 16 Like ___ of worms 17 Pioneer in heliocentric

theory

18 Fishing floats

19 Baht : Thailand :: ___ :

Laos

20 +, $ or @

21 Observed visiting 23 Imperial sticks, say 25 San Francisco’s

___ Tower

27 Dismal turnout

28 End of a letter 30 Backstage Broadway worker 32 Unmitigated disaster, in slang

35 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr. 38 Raptors’ home: Abbr. 39 Shoebox spec 40 Second-in-command at a corp. 41 Leonardo da Vinci drawing featuring superimposed body positions

45 Very light

46 They roll in

50 Erie or Miami

51 D.C. tourist destination 54 Senate majority leader who succeeded Dole 55 The house of Versace? 57 Vanquish

59 Bucolic expanse 60 Having a scrap

61 John Nash’s field of mathematics 64 Narrow margin

65 A question of cosmology

66 Mime and puppetry, e.g.

67 Went door to door?

DOWN

1 Twisted types

2 Cannes star

3 CNN newsman Jake 4 Copa Mundial cry

5 You may visit a lot of them before Christmas 6 Kind of attack

7 Covent Garden architect Jones 8 Spreads out in a park? 9 Euro forerunner 10 Time in therapy, e.g.: Abbr.

11 Shia who’s not a Muslim 12 Cost-effective 13 Cayenne’s hotter cousin

14 Like much FM radio 22 Implore

24 Human appendage? 26 “Count ___” (calming advice) 29 They’re traded in the

Chicago Board of Trade 31 Feel

33 Affect

34 Hector’s father

35 2015 Literature

Nobelist Alexievich 36 Certain chemistry lab apparatus 37 Immanuel Kant, for one

42 Purchase incentives 43 In a 6-Down

44 It’s nothing

47 Bit of computer programming executed repeatedly 48 Perpetual, poetically 49 Didn’t take off 52 “Brigadoon”

composer 53 Theorbos, e.g. 56 Ottoman chiefs 58 Soften

62 Cardinals’ home: Abbr. 63 “My God!,” as

cried by Jesus