NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Like night and day 12 Take another

direction 15 Alternative to Pandora or Spotify 16 Words of praise 17 Became excited 18 Business concern 19 2016 campaign

topic

20 Difficulty picking

up subtleties 22 Comparative

indicator

25 Pool cover 27 Dormant

28 “Ain’t gonna

happen!” 30 Pretension 33 Loyalty, old-style 34 Timorese, e.g. 35 Richest part

36 Is dormant 38 Faced with

courage

40 Oxford

designation 41 Son-in-law of

Chief Powhatan 43 Ebbs 45 One getting depressed on the road 47 Person with a

mental bloc? 48 It may prey

on a ray

49 Team in Houston 51 Inspiron maker 52 Means of keeping

musical time 55 Date preceder 57 With 10-Down,

go wild 58 President Clinton hosted one in 2000 63 Football stat:

Abbr.

64 Big headache for

a company rep 65 They have sgts. 66 Intuition about something soon to happen

DOWN

1 Drag accessory 2 “Well, I’ll be!” 3 Like hall-of-fame inductees, typically 4 Time for many TV talk shows, informally 5 Refinery container 6 Fire on from above 7 “The Governator” 8 Valencian dishes

9 Also say

10 See 57-Across 11 Collette of “United States of Tara”

12 2-3 or 1-2-2,

in basketball 13 “We agreed to it, so you’d better deliver” 14 Recharge,

so to speak 21 “Little Birds”

author

22 P.G.A. Championship airer

23 Goof off 24 Minority group 26 Crow, for one 29 Start of a

billet-doux 31 Roadway finisher 32 Knocked out

34 C. S. Lewis’s symbol of Jesus 37 Edible part of a

mesquite tree 39 “Sudden Death”

star, 1995

40 A star might

go on one

42 Like a wet

noodle

44 Its artists do many sketches, for short

46 Too slick

47 Boggy 50 Counterpart

of a blitz 53 Pandora and

Spotify

54 Kind of walk 56 Deli case display 59 “___ ohev otach” (Hebrew for

“I love you”) 60 Staff 61 Government org. impersonated in many phishing scams

62 Starting point

for a hole