NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Keeps in the loop, in a way

4 Ones making passing judgments, for short? 7 Witty

13 Genre at the Grammys

14 Its capital is Abu Dhabi, for short

15 ___ Sea, body of water between Sicily and Greece

16 Picking out of a lineup, e.g.

18 Sign at some beaches 19 Doctrine

20 Lamb in literature 21 Not pay taxes by mail 22 Upper body muscles, for short 24 Extremely 26 Pulitzer Prize winner for “A Death in the Family” 27 Animated Princess of Power

29 James who sang “At last, my love has come along …”

30 Headwear in a Prince hit

32 Posting on an office bulletin board

34 ___ sauce

35 Didn’t delete

39 Potus #36

42 One choice in a party

game

43 Home pages?

47 Car named after an automotive competition 49 “I’m Down” vis-à-vis “Help!” 52 Climber’s challenge 53 First name in “The Godfather” 55 Chess piece 57 Mantelpiece, e.g. 58 Award from the American Theater Wing 59 Mix in

60 Apartment type 61 Annual event to support breast cancer awareness … or a hint to answering 16-, 22-, 24-, 35-, 53- and 55-Across

63 Producer of rain 64 Prompt

65 About

66 Dampened

67 Letters for college

applicants

68 Result of imperfect

service DOWN

1 Wrist attachment 2 Scale awkwardly, with

“up”

3 Go downhill fast 4 Collections of patches,

say

5 Exile

6 Company in the book

“Console Wars” 7 Precursor to IMAX 8 Bathtub item

9 Salad green

10 State flowers of Rhode Island, Illinois and New Jersey 11 Enthusiastically gonna 12 Co-workers of M.D.s 13 Facility at Quantico 17 Govt. agency that combats smuggling 23 Stagger

24 ___ Fox 25 “Woo-hoo!” 28 Journalist in a military unit 31 Colleague of Mary, Murray and Lou on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” 33 Application for the Mr. Universe contest? 36 Burgers and fries, typically 37 Donald Duck’s nephews, e.g.

38 Make out

39 Tyler of “The Lord of

the Rings”

40 Visibly take offense 41 Activity for many a

senior

44 She helped Theseus

navigate the Labyrinth 45 Seaside sculpture, say 46 Easter supply

48 Give recognition 50 Flow away from the shore 51 Payments made with a wink, maybe

54 Dress style

56 ___ Lingus

58 Start of a

reminiscence

60 Darn, e.g.

62 Be in bad shape