N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 *One side of a 23-Across piece 6 *Leeway 11 Tolkien’s Treebeard, e.g. 14 Switch from plastic to paper, say 15 Hedren of “The Birds” 16 Actress Vardalos 17 Aggregate 18 Buildings in a Washington, D.C.,“row” 20 Widespread 21 Julio is part of it 22 *Formation of poker chips 23 Disc-flipping board game hinted at by a word ladder formed by the answers to the nine starred clues 25 Slaps with a court fine 27 Where “Hamlet” opens 29 *Celery unit 33 Largest U.S. univ. system 37 Baltic capital 38 *Hackneyed 40 Not just bite and swallow 41 Haphazard 43 *Sedimentary rock 44 Dollar bill, e.g. 47 Moves heavenward 50 Another name for 23-Across 55 *Pinocchio swallower 56 Part of L.G.B.T. 57 The Panthers of the A.C.C. 58 Twosome in a Shakespeare title 61 Nut jobs 62 Fairhiring letters 63 Mimic’s ability 64 Creator of a logical “razor” 65 Coastal raptor 66 *“___ England Slept” (1938 Churchill book) 67 *Other side of a 23-Across piece

DOWN 1 “Congratulations!” 2 Actor Paul of “American Graffiti” 3 Embarrass 4 Social standing 5 Metric measures: Abbr. 6 Trial figures 7 Prom night rental 8 Police dept. alert 9 H&R Block V.I.P. 10 Mouths, slangily 11 Pioneering computer of the 1940s 12 Eleanor Roosevelt, to Theodore 13 Items on a to-do list 19 Something to do immediately after waking up 21 The whole ball of wax 24 Albanian currency 25 Way too uptight 26 Insider informant 28 Corporate raider Carl 29 H.S. students getting ready for college 30 Up to, informally 31 ___ Khan 32 Airplane seat restraint 34 “Now I get it!” 35 ___ Aviv 36 Farm female 38 Composition of dunes 39 Sounds of disapproval 42 Rules in force in England before the Norman conquest 43 A few: Abbr. 45 Grand Marnier flavor 46 Josephine who wrote “The Daughter of Time” 47 “Shucks!” 48 See-through 49 Big name in cameras and copiers 51 Notable time period 52 Perfumer Nina 53 Brown ermine 54 “Who’s there?” response 56 Robt. E. Lee, e.g. 59 Book between Galatians and Philippians: Abbr. 60 The year 1002 61 Setting for simmering