N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Row 5 Worn out 10 The Kleenex of cotton swabs 14 Predator of dolphins 15 Press secretary ___ Huckabee Sanders 16 ___ Major (Big Dipper’s constellation) 17 4/4 19 Smidgen 20 Prepare to be knighted 21 Indianapolisto-Cleveland dir. 22 To whom “break a leg” is said 23 Period in Congress 25 Basketball highlight 27 11/11 32 Hay and such for farm animals 36 “The Raven” poet 37 Prefix with space 38 Girlfriends in Paris 39 “Great Expectations” protagonist 40 Tiptoe, perhaps 41 Drug informant, informally 42 “The Lord of the Rings” baddie 43 Walk like a two-yearold, say 44 20/20 47 Trolley 48 Division of baseball’s N.L. or A.L. 53 Always trying to get one’s way 56 Green: Prefix 58 Wear away 59 European automaker 60 50/50 62 “The Simpsons” character with a palindromic name 63 “Sexy” woman in a Beatles song 64 Start running 65 Butcher’s cut 66 Put in office 67 You are, south of the border

DOWN 1 Argyle pair 2 Lying on one’s stomach 3 Zeniths 4 Takes the wildness out of 5 I.R.S. digits: Abbr. 6 It lasts 20 years 7 The Emerald Isle 8 Say “When I was with my good friend Barack last week …,” e.g. 9 Word ignored when alphabetizing 10 Something that gives you a sinking feeling 11 Home-run run 12 Analogy words 13 Jack of the old “Tonight Show” 18 Mount of ___ (Jerusalem landmark) 22 Advicegiving Landers 24 “___ the land of the free …” 26 Dubai’s home: Abbr. 28 Some long novels 29 Monopoly card 30 Asia’s disappearing ___ Sea 31 Oxen connector 32 Dracula’s biter 33 Vizquel with 11 Gold Gloves 34 Like some straits 35 Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016 39 Really, really old 40 One of 154 by Shakespeare 42 Eggs 43 Lowest digit 45 Word repeated before “again” 46 Like Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe painting 49 Onetime HBO series set in New Orleans 50 Standard dog name 51 “Skyfall” singer 52 Periods after Mardi Gras 53 Summer hangout 54 “I’ve had it ___ here!” 55 Org. in Carl Sagan’s “Contact” 57 Surrender 60 Suffix in many language names 61 Ready