NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Menaces that name other menaces if you put a “w” at the start

5 Darken

8 BBC sci-fi series, informally

13 “Your Majesty”

14 It leans right: Abbr. 16 Sounded satisfied

17 Angle between a leafstalk and a stem

18 Subject of a parent’s restriction for a child

20 Big “but”?

22 Chevy sedan

23 Prefix with dermis

24 Member of a crossword zoo?

27 Small diamond handed down to an heir?

31 Number 41 or 43

35 Cross shape

36 Barely leading

37 Immune response trigger

39 Takes over (for)

41 Pageant prize

42 Single market locale: Abbr.

43 Son of John and Yoko

44 Fight between two lovers?

48 Goal

49 Scepter go-with

50 Elements with names ending in -ium, typically

55 Futuristic Volkswagen?

59 Seat for a ragtime player

61 Amount of land a pair of oxen could plow in a day, historically 62 Pitcher’s aid

63 Where a brogue is spoken

64 Wander

65 “Straight ___ Compton”

66 Fella

67 Symbol in the middle of a Scrabble board DOWN

1 “Likewise”

2 It comes a quarter of the way into the day

3 Prettify

4 John Lewis march site 5 Aversion

6 What an oatmeal bath alleviates

7 Marcel of few words

8 Someone for whom “Thank you very much” is “Mange tak”

9 See 59-Down

10 Popular wedding flower

11 Fashion line?

12 Poetic praise

15 Sprang

19 Christian singer Tornquist

21 Good ___ days

25 Fad x 10

26 Knoxville sch.

28 Give a whupping

29 “Psst, you’re on,” e.g.

30 iPad purchases

31 Scrub in the tub

32 State of the ___

33 Not budge

34 Charter

38 Part of L.G.B.T.Q.

39 Benchwarmer

40 Ran roughshod over

42 Entangle

45 Bullies

46 Use a soapbox

47 Spot from a pot

51 Rulers before 1917

52 Alternative to a four-in-hand 53 Pupa-to-be

54 Herd member

56 Doing the job

57 Jaffe who wrote “Mazes and Monsters”

58 Toon explorer

59 With 9-Down, according to share

60 Slip in a pot