new YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ready to explode 9 Mechanical calculator

pioneer

15 Mesmerize

16 Do high-level banking? 17 Exquisitely delicate 18 Disorganized group 19 Set off

20 Got room service, say 22 Stripling

23 Greek goddess of witchcraft and the underworld 26 Smooth talker’s quality 28 Possible reply to someone’s tactful remark 31 Wild grp. 32 “Venus favors the bold” writer 33 Jack of “Dragnet” 36 Travel aimlessly

37 Cat known as a Shirazi in the Mideast 41 Stand’s opposite … or a bad thing to do on the stand 42 Ruckus

44 Humorist Bombeck 45 Just make, with “out” 46 Be really bothered by 51 Dance music subgenre 53 Opposite of kindness 54 Ad ___

55 Up next 58 ___ perpetuum (let it be everlasting: Lat.) 59 Any of four punk rock bandmates 61 Ruble : Russian :: kuna : ___

64 Goes around 65 Newspaper photo

technique 66 Antarctica, for one 67 Image that’s very

pleasing to look at

DOWN

1 Hallucinate

2 Showy ballet leap 3 Philosophical issues that may be debated 4 Mine shaft borer 5 Snarky laugh syllable 6 Suffix with brilliant 7 Awarder of billions in sports scholarships, in brief

8 Lucre

9 Outcast

10 Classic Studebaker 11 Twin, to the other twin 12 What 90% of American households had in 2010 — but fewer have today 13 Book of legends 14 English industrial city described by Dickens as “an odious place” 21 Ratings org. 24 Pontiac Trans Am option

25 Water diverter 27 L.A.-to-Fresno direction

29 Cassis cocktail

30 Car that’s an anagram

of 14-Down

34 Sight on school grounds

35 A little extra for personal spending 38 E.U. member: Abbr. 39 City in the Midwest’s

Story County 40 California tour

locale

43 Mythical bird

47 One getting hit

after hit?

48 Polar explorer

Shackleton 49 Swillbelly 50 One-named

folk singer

51 Was off

52 Be off

56 Great desire 57 Request

intervention

60 Its first part is

called a strophe 62 Estadio exclamation 63 Houston is in it, but

Dallas isn’t, briefly