NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Information about

other information 9 Make harmless, as a snake 15 “Original copy” or “open secret” 16 “Ma-a-aybe”

17 Shy sort

19 Broke ground? 20 “You ___ busted!” 21 Ambulances’ hosp. destinations 22 Epithet for a British beauty with fair skin 28 Magnificent

30 Grp. meeting in a school gym, often 31 Long in the tooth 32 “Buffalo Bill,” for William Cody 34 Warm and cozy 35 High-flown speech or writing … or a description of 17-, 22-, 51- and 57-Across? 41 Chops (off) 42 Poseidon’s realm 43 Letters on a

wanted poster 44 $ource of ca$h 47 Places in one’s cross hairs

51 Try to improve what is already beautiful 54 Meadow

55 Very heavy

56 Flying nuisance 57 Full of energy and enthusiasm

63 1996 best-selling guide

for “grammarphobes” 64 One registering with the American Kennel Club 65 Chooses for office 66 Gumbo cookers

DOWN

1 Dances violently

2 Urge strongly 3 Rapper/actor Gibson 4 In the thick of 5 High-ranking Mafioso 6 “Raiders of the Lost ___”

7 You, to Yves

8 Record of a year’s events

9 Dump, as stocks 10 Elevator innovator Otis 11 Stop on an elevator 12 “Talking” system for the deaf, in brief 13 Born, in high society 14 Comprehend

18 Firm hold

22 Fashion magazine with a French name 23 Hair removal brand 24 Color of an overcast sky 25 Actress Chaplin of “Game of Thrones” 26 Counterfeit token 27 Rim

29 Legislatures

write them

33 ___-mo replay

34 Like arias and anthems 35 Something planted

when claiming territory 36 Troublemaking

Norse god

37 Milky white gem 38 Opening on Broadway? 39 Onetime radio

host Boortz

40 Larson who created

“The Far Side”

44 If everything goes right 45 Grad student’s

big paper

46 Blend well

together

48 Pacific current that

causes odd weather 49 Cups, saucers,

sugar bowl, etc. 50 Lustful goat-men of myth

52 Kind of column in ancient Greece 53 Things detectives pursue

56 Stare slack-jawed 57 Slack-jawed feeling 58 Note after fa 59 Broker’s charge 60 Boozehound

61 Grow long in the tooth 62 ___ Jones industrial

average