NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cocktail often garnished with a lemon twist

9 Israeli port mentioned in the Bible 14 Paul Mccartney wrote one about Liverpool

15 1898 chemistry discovery

16 Show promise

17 Square

18 More than impressed 19 Execrate

21 Only three-letter word in Scrabble that requires both blank tiles 22 Strategy game with disks

25 Basic cleaner

26 Chess maneuver with a French name

30 Host

32 Herb often used with potatoes

33 Half brother of Tom Sawyer

34 City north of Baghdad

36 Palm that produces berries

37 Turned up

40 Give a powerful impression of

41 1968 swimming gold medalist Debbie

43 ___ Henry Hoover, former first lady

44 “The Last Don” author

45 “I forgot what I’m supposed to say here!”

46 It always goes to hell

48 Co. behind the podcast “The Daily” 49 Math subj.

51 Parts of a Facebook feed

52 First name at Woodstock

53 George who composed “Give My Regards to Broadway”

58 Celebrate with sprightly dancing

60 Study for the bar?

63 Soak

64 Members of the lute family

65 Eponym in a candy store 66 Reserve

DOWN

1 Home to Bactrian camels

2 ___ horse

3 Zilch

4 Fretful thing to be in

5 Turns down

6 Cause of an explosion

7 Zilch

8 Apple variety

9 Faith that preaches nonviolence to all living creatures

10 ___ Lovelace, computing pioneer who was the daughter of Lord Byron

11 Ends weakly

12 Hairless creature in a nursery rhyme

13 Floor

15 Engine stats

20 “The proper task of life,” per Nietzsche

23 Brand on the Alaska Highway 24 Fruitless

26 Red-cased import

27 “Good going!”

28 Avoid taking unnecessary risks 29 Down-to-earth type?

31 Air show highlights 35 16th-century pope who owned a pet elephant

38 Massive explosion

39 Face-off

42 Closing number of a musical, often 46 Accelerate

47 “Great taste since 1905” sloganeer 48 Depths of despair

50 Boil over

54 Accented cheers

55 Hindu festival of colors 56 Venerable

57 Where Harley-davidson is HOG 59 French menu word

61 Squeak (by)

62 Bit of hardware