NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Insect made of paper

8 Puccini opera 14 Microscopic machine

15 Add salt to the wound

16 Prepare for a physical

17 Phrase in beer ads

18 Got in on the deal

19 Vehicle company with a bulldog logo 21 Had down pat

22 “___ were the days”

23 Lead-in to sayer 24 Modern-___

25 Site of a van Gogh bandage 26 Wares on a band’s merch table 28 PC problem solver 30 Component not found on a digital watch

32 Hip-hop pal

34 Whack jobs

35 Word that must be added to 1-, 8-, 65and 66-Across for their clues to make sense [with a visual hint in the grid] 38 The “O” of the magazine O 41 Calculus calculation

42 Letters on love letters

46 Much of a marching band

47 Spy org. in Bond movies

48 Night before a big day

49 Myrna of “The Thin Man” 50 Seashell seller of a tongue twister 52 Applebee’s or Subway

54 Some native Nigerians

56 Willie who’s #5 in career home runs 58 Hank who’s #2 in career home runs 59 Get millions of hits, say

61 Crisis center phone service 63 Glossy finishes

64 “Here’s the solution!”

65 One going from party to party 66 Orange, black and white flutterer

DOWN

1 Like couples at movies, typically 2 Water-repellent headgear

3 Yet to come

4 Wounds at Pamplona, say 5 Home 6 Pitchfork-wielding assemblage 7 Brangelina, once

8 Covered with sludge 9 Presidential nickname 10 Presidential nickname

11 In a single attempt

12 Event that once had a four-minute “barrier”

13 Lengthwise

15 Costa ___

20 Test grader’s need

26 OK summer hrs.

27 It may be stored on the cloud 28 Under the weather

29 Pole workers’ creations 31 Degrees for C.F.O.s

33 Eldest of the Brady boys 36 Sounds of hesitation 37 Adjective for the Beatles

38 Binds legally or morally

39 How legal aid lawyers work 40 Competitor of Duracell and Eveready 43 More bushed

44 Pertaining to aircraft technology 45 Starr with a 1998 report 50 Pint-size

51 Frans who painted “The Laughing Cavalier” 52 Settlement-building board game, informally 53 Sesame-seed-and-honey confection 55 ___ Valley (Reagan Library locale) 57 Leveling wedge

60 Stephen of “Citizen X”

62 “How about that!”