NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fall apart in competition

5 Discards

10 Calculating sorts, in brief

14 Slews 15 Many-time film co-star of Shatner and Nimoy 16 2,800-mile river to the Laptev Sea 17 Hand on a hacienda 18 Chosen few

19 Given to pretension 20 Got plenty of healthful food 22 Some wind blowers 24 Model company? 25 Store with magazines 26 Tiny fey sort 27 Involuntary test subjects 31 Refusal in Inverness

32 Ocular affliction 34 Hero architect in

“The Fountainhead” 35 Ones easily taken 36 Bad candidate

for gymnastics

38 In history

39 It had more than 10 million subscribers in the 1990s

40 Knotty growth 41 Anniversary gift between pottery and steel

42 ___ Tzu (dog) 44 Get comfy on a

sofa or bed, say 46 Like some avant-garde

music

48 It’s well-rounded 49 Image in the night sky over Gotham 51 ___ Balls (snack items) 52 Second City train inits. 53 Very basic things 55 Wrapped up in court? 57 Pretended

58 Part of a flight 59 Grace’s last name on “Will & Grace” 60 Comment section disclaimer

61 Quite 62 Coffeehouse selection

63 Gather

64 Swamp dweller 65 Antiseptic brand

since 1889 66 Diminutive

Italian suffix

DOWN

1 “Hot” things 2 Slanted

3 “Butt out!” 4 Not anonymous 5 With 45-Down, effect used by astronomers to measure distance 6 Room in Clue

7 Barely make (out) 8 Contemporary of Modernism 9 With 46-Down, chill out 10 Insured’s filing 11 Everyone’s duty? 12 Defense against infestation 13 Agrees 21 Potential dragon roll ingredient 23 Extraction target

28 You may follow in its wake

29 Stable figures? 30 Unyielding

33 17th ___ of Oxford, author of Shakespeare’s plays, by some accounts 35 London area next to Mayfair

37 Goof

39 Regarding

40 With 43-Down, make peace … or what you must do to complete this puzzle? 43 See 40-Down 44 Chuck who was part of

the Watergate Seven 45 See 5-Down

46 See 9-Down

47 Great Plains tribe 50 Order in a rush order 51 Take care of

54 Tricky situation 56 Nonkosher deli orders

57 Act out