NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Caught you!”

7 Rapidly increase in size 15 Britain, Spain or France, once

16 Shrub used to make tea 17 Bachelorette party attendee

18 *Seek surreptitiously 19 Author Kingsley 20 Under the weather 22 Faculty heads 23 Mormon’s donation 25 Got ready to run? 28 Woman’s name that’s an anagram of a European native 30 Stylish, ’60s-style

31 All the rage

34 Maker of Team USA

swimsuits

37 Nada

38 Comic strip opossum 39 *Fight imaginary

enemies

42 “Such a shame!” 43 Clearance item holder 44 “For sure!”

45 Deep desire

46 Ashen

47 Occasion to dress up 48 Intestines’ locale 50 Airheaded

54 Hard effort, metaphorically 57 “The Cask of Amontillado” writer 59 “Toodle-oo!” 60 *Baseball throw that might thwart a squeeze play

63 Captain Ahab, e.g. 65 “Regrettably, it’s true” 66 Coleridge’s “The ___ Harp”

67 Get wasted 68 Commoners’ superiors

DOWN

1 Sired

2 So-called “fifth taste” 3 Tricky bowling situation

4 *Bettors’ aids

5 ___ of Good Feelings 6 New York’s Katz’s, for one

7 Burn with water 8 Indian flatbread

9 “U can’t b serious!” 10 Joined with a torch 11 Not be colorfast

12 ___ Romeo

13 Meaning of “Simba” in Swahili

14 Film director ___ von Trier

21 Grassy expanse 24 Source of medieval Norse poetry 26 Declaration made while anteing up 27 “What’d I say?!” 29 Halfway decent

31 Fit to be canonized 32 Eye hungrily

33 Throw out

34 Bit of training accompanying “Sit!” and “Speak!”

35 Stack (up)

36 Verve

37 Diarist Anaïs

38 Home to this puzzle’s featured structure, as hinted at by the starts of the answers to the starred clues 40 Improvise, with “it” 41 Gin rummy combo 46 ___ reason

47 1960s muscle car 48 Former colony that’s a

gambling mecca 49 Supermodel and actress Kate

51 Shire of “Rocky” 52 Total bargain 53 Exaggerated accounts

54 Dustup

55 Surfing aid

56 Raison d’___ 58 Wide-mouthed jug 61 Tribute that may be

urned?

62 Nonprofit grp. that works with the Defense Department 64 “Boo-___!”