N.Y. TIMES 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 Creepycrawly, 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 longdistance 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 Singlehandedly 55 Waze ways: Abbr. 56 Arthurian heroine 57 ___ Khan 60 Bit of land in the Seine 61 Component of a relay 62 Crafty