NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Quickly microwave 4 Stock index founded in 1885, informally 10 Cooler in glasses 13 Afflictions

15 Elder Levy in “Schitt’s Creek”

16 Islanders’ grp.

17 People who acknowledge when they’ve been verbally bested?

19 Berkeley, familiarly 20 Paper opener

21 Two for a basket:

Abbr.

22 “Sweet!”

23 Ruins a shiny fabric, as a pet might? 27 Stratovolcano in Sicily 28 Shot taker 30 Computer scientist Turing

33 “Should that be true …” 36 Determined to do 37 Power, as an engine 38 Embassy staffer … or a hint to 17-, 23-, 49- and 59-Across?

40 “S.N.L.” alum Gasteyer 41 Colosseum country 43 Lead-in to girl 44 Skating jump

45 Numb, as a foot

47 MCAT subj.

49 Bad advice from

grandpa?

54 Without

55 Desire

56 Spammer’s medium 58 Parabola piece 59 Managed to stomach a

cracker spread? 62 Undefined ordinal 63 Feared fifth-century

ruler

64 Diez menos dos

65 Turn red, maybe 66 Summit attendee

67 Corral, e.g.

DOWN

1 Cylindrical pasta

2 ___ the way

3 Dog owned by a talking mouse

4 Equipment not needed in miniature golf 5 Cabana

6 King Tut’s land 7 Profundity

8 “Be right with you” 9 Director Anderson 10 Payroll deduction 11 Parent on a field trip, often

12 Woman’s name that sounds like a letter of the alphabet

14 Vet

18 Run the show, say 22 Maggie Smith, for one 24 “I’ll do that right away!” 25 International pact that

ended in 2020

26 Blast with a beam of

photons

29 Fussy in the extreme 30 Handel’s “La giustizia,”

for one

31 Bacchanalian cry 32 Overwhelming amount 34 Took a load off

35 Group of eight

38 “The ___ have it!” 39 Suspend

42 Without

44 At the original speed, in

scores

46 Psychoactive drug from

a cactus

48 “So true!” 50 Volkswagen compact

51 Reversed

52 Org. co-founded by W.

E. B. Du Bois

53 10% offering

54 Castle material

57 Revolutionary Trotsky 59 Eight pts.

60 Fútbol cry

61 Game with the objective of winning all the cards