NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Suckling site 6 Piedmont wine center 10 Lay an egg, so to speak 14 “Prospero Año ___!” 15 Garbage-hauling boat 16 Hitchhiker’s hope 17 Start of a quip about a whimsical celebrity couple

20 It may run the Sierra OS 21 Winner’s hand gesture 22 Like “it,” grammatically 23 Quip, part 2

26 Treelike creature of Middle-earth

27 River of France and Belgium

28 Dadaist Jean

31 De Botton who wrote “The Architecture of Happiness”

35 Words sealed with a kiss 36 First name in stunt cycling

37 Quip, part 3

41 Greek counterpart of Mars

42 Chemical in Drano 43 Kvetches

44 “Far out!”

45 Target of ID theft: Abbr. 46 Bluto’s was 0.0 in

“Animal House” 48 Quip, part 4 54 “American Pie” singer

Don 57 Article in Le Monde 58 First name at

Woodstock

59 End of the quip

62 Best Picture of 1958 63 Like elbowing through a

crowd, say

64 Flashes one’s pearlies 65 Smart-alecky talk 66 George Orwell’s alma mater

67 Test for gold content, say

DOWN

1 Square

2 Cathedral of Florence 3 ___ flask (thermos) 4 Kick out

5 Heed the coxswain 6 Green light

7 Amtrak posting: Abbr. 8 Proverbial amount of bricks

9 Wartime poster phrase 10 Con artist’s crime 11 Cheery tune 12 Drooling dog of the comics

13 Source of pressure, perhaps 18 Nobelist Pavlov 19 Things having their home on the range? 24 Drop-down item 25 Gucci of fashion 28 State firmly 29 Swing a scythe, say 30 Grade enhancer 31 Cracked a bit

32 Logan of CBS News 33 Got completely correct 34 Mensa members’

assets

35 Curling surface

36 Fig. in a pilot’s

announcement

38 “To be, or not to be”

soliloquy setting 39 Coordinate, as audio

and video

40 Whole bunch 45 Household item whose manufacture employs 42-Across

46 Mob hit participants 47 “Spare me!,” for one 48 Games played by Elite

Eight winners

49 Get the better of 50 Phoebe of “Gremlins” 51 Polygon measures 52 Andean source of wool 53 God-awful 54 Boardroom events: Abbr.

55 “Pet” that needs watering 56 Endurance,

informally

60 Same old same old

61 Org. for Raptors and Hawks