NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 As a result

5 Dr.’s order

8 Legal assistants, for short

13 Ripped the wrapping off

15 Glass component

16 Kings’ guards may be taken in it 17 Haunted house feeling

18 QB’s stat: Abbr.

19 ___ de toilette

20 Moochers

21 Young ___

23 Iota

25 Essence

26 “Mangia!”

27 Moscow’s home

31 Flat rate

33 Pops

35 Holiday quaff

36 Is an expert on this puzzle’s theme?

40 Christian inst. in Tulsa

41 Sleep stage

42 Plaza girl in kid-lit

43 Amber, e.g.

46 It’s a gift

48 “___ that a lot”

49 Place to change at the beach 51 Goddess of dawn

52 Decimal system

55 Novice, perhaps

57 Big Apple subway line, for short 60 Fills in for

61 Set of documents on a legal matter 63 Amounts paid to join poker games 64 Like peaches around summer and early fall

65 Totally wiped

66 Galley item

67 Periodic table fig.

DOWN

1 European smoker

2 Gen. ___ E. Lee

3 Provided but not asked for

4 Classic work originally in 10 vols. 5 Film-rating grp.

6 Decline

7 QB’s stat: Abbr.

8 Ravioli relative

9 Trued up

10 Diana ___, 1969 Bond girl

11 Long

12 Concerns for many srs.

14 Euripides tragedy

15 Dirty Harry’s org.

20 Instrument in “Norwegian Wood” 22 Office-inappropriate, briefly

24 Family guy?

25 Category

28 Online aid for finding a contractor 29 Gustav who composed “The Planets” 30 Curved molding

31 Toffee candy bar

32 Ending with auction

34 Indigo, e.g.

37 One unlikely to order ham and eggs 38 Heir, legally

39 Scrubbed

44 Strands at a ski chalet, say 45 Swimming

47 One of a bunch

50 Gershwin heroine

52 Streisand, familiarly

53 Small bra size

54 Eyelid ailment

56 Red letters?

58 Musk of SpaceX

59 Prefix with phobia

61 A.F.L.-___

62 “Towering” regulatory grp.?