TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tour de France, e.g.

5 Sonny Corleone, for one

9 Crow

13 Professor in a library, perhaps

14 New Testament epistle

16 Second attempt, informally

17 Laura Dern, in “Little Women” 19 Prelude to a perspective 20 Creepy-crawly, maybe

21 Made tight

23 Actress Thompson of “Selma” 25 Swipe

26 Big name in Dadaism

27 Where R.N.S are always needed 28 Sarah Drew, on “Grey’s Anatomy” 31 Shorten the sentence, maybe?

34 Hip designs?

35 Ming-na Wen, on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” 39 Princess Organa

41 Avowal to a long-distance lover 45 Barbara Billingsley, on “Leave It to Beaver”

49 Santa’s helper?

50 QB blunder: Abbr.

51 Half of a centaur

52 One of the Obamas

54 To-go

56 Golf coup

58 Blind as ___

59 Chinese appetizers … or a punny description of 17-, 28-, 35- and 45-Across 63 Hair on the back of the neck 64 Academic’s “and others” 65 Christmas season

66 Crafts’ companion

67 Go downhill fast

68 Like quiche

DOWN

1 Engine stat

2 In the style of

3 Gets cozy

4 Watson, Willard and Woodhouse

5 Unconscious condition

6 Dr.’s org.

7 Sequel title ender

8 Prepared to respond 9 Camembert cousin

10 Leftover bit

11 Sticks (to)

12 Positive media coverage

14 Title for M.L.K. Jr.

15 Prepare, as oysters or corn 18 Elizabethan, for one 22 Trigonometry symbols for angles 23 Nervous habit

24 Prefix with system

25 Actress Drescher of “The Nanny” 28 ___ ears

29 Canada’s smallest prov. 30 Compensates

32 Friend for Françoise

33 Swell

36 Go in headfirst

37 Mother Bethel ___ Church (Philadelphia congregation since 1794)

38 Soviet space station

39 Energy snack marketed to women 40 Contest hopeful

42 What might give you that nice warm Christmas feeling?

43 Big name in nail polish 44 International powerhouse in women’s soccer

45 Mexican root vegetable popular in salads

46 Relaxed

47 Bursts forth

48 Related to the stars

52 Team head: Abbr. 53 Single-handedly

55 Waze ways: Abbr.

56 Arthurian heroine

57 ___ Khan

60 Bit of land in the Seine 61 Component of a relay

62 Crafty