NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 33 1/3 r.p.m. records 4 Cher or Adele,

musically

8 Allude (to)

13 Annoy

14 Building for bovines 15 Mogadishu native 16 *Chief source of

support 18 Self-centeredness 19 ___ fixe

(preoccupation) 20 General Mills puffed

corn cereal 21 Distances in Britain 22 *Chapel Hill athlete 24 Pyromaniacs’

pleasures 25 Monogram for Long

John Silver’s creator 26 Cut (off)

27 Outbuilding for storage 30 Quarrel

33 Yankee great Yogi 35 Park or Madison, on an

N.Y.C. map

36 Bouncy youngster in

Pooh’s crowd

37 Praise after a proper response to the end of the answer to each starred clue

39 Kesey who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

40 Vow sworn at the altar 41 Round Mongolian tents 42 Wary 44 Spot for a teacher’s

apple or Apple 46 Virtuous conduct, in

Confucianism

47 Dot follower in a

website address 48 Pass, as a law 50 *“Why?”

54 Saudi city where

Muhammad is buried 56 One running for office,

informally 57 Noteworthy periods 58 First king of the Franks

(A.D. 481)

59 *Tend an absent

resident’s property 61 M.L.B. division that

includes the Astros 62 Prefix with tasse

meaning “half” 63 Word before “blastoff” 64 Uptight 65 Harmonious, after “in” 66 Originally named

DOWN

1 Outer boundary 2 Devil’s fashion choice, in a Meryl Streep film 3 Person on a slippery slope

4 Midsection muscles, briefly

5 Potato treats for Hanukkah 6 Backpacker’s path 7 Black, banded gemstone

8 Radioer’s “Got it” 9 Is melodramatic 10 *Equitable treatment 11 Otherwise

12 Edges, as of craters 15 Athlete getting part

time pay

17 India’s first P.M. 23 Plaintive poem 24 Fiestas and Fusions 26 Resulted in

28 ___ and anon

29 Reject as false 30 Extremely dry

31 Went as a passenger 32 *Soft bedding material 33 Title character in a Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary 34 Radiant

38 One rejected by a

group

43 Roast host 45 Butchers’ tools 47 Op-ed offering

49 Plant seed with a

licoricelike flavor 50 Poppycock

51 “Citizen Kane” star

Welles

52 State that’s the largest U.S. producer of lobsters

53 Beauty mogul Lauder 54 Exam for a wannabe

doc

55 Her: Fr.

56 Degrees

after M.A.s

60 Error indicator in a

quotation