N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Needing some kneading, say 5 Language in which a nutty person might be told “Yer bum’s oot the windae” 10 Hunting store purchase 14 Hook’s henchman 15 Stamp holder 16 Birthday ___

17 Basic idea 18 Items that are hard to throw away? 20 Remedy

22 Troublemaker of 1-Down 23 Important piece in échecs 24 Moneycollecting org.

25 Word included to prevent libel, say

28 Rough writeup

30 Ballet basic 31 Losing tictac-toe row 32 Cry of dismay in 5-Across 34 Singer/ songwriter Corinne Bailey ___ 35 Landed

36 Work suggested by this puzzle’s circled and shaded squares 41 Strongly advocate 42 -: Abbr.

43 One of the Kennedys

44 Pudding flavor

45 Big name in in-flight internet

46 ___ Nadu (Indian state) 50 America ___, star of TV’s “Ugly Betty” 52 Extinct flightless bird

54 Lead-in to puncture

55 Actress Chaplin

56 Like an unused air mattress 58 That’s gnus to me!

61 Shortcoming

62 Word before rich or talk 63 Rent

64 Swiss

Alp next to Lake Lucerne

65 Just OK

66 Small and pointy-eared, perhaps 67 What “exaggerated” is sometimes misspelled with

DOWN

1 Mythical realm accessible only by the rainbow bridge Bifrost

2 Key to this puzzle’s theme? 3 Greek goddess of the hearth 4 Sight on Disney World’s Expedition Everest ride 5 Flavor: Sp. 6 Sticks together 7 Instrument featured in 36-Across 8 Rum ___ Tugger (“Cats” cat) 9 Most foul

10 Up

11 Puttering around? 12 Flavor enhancer 13 Exclamations of surprise 19 Credit line?

21 Leave behind

25 ___ Freed, early radio personality who coined the term “rock ’n’ roll” 26 It takes people out

27 Biblical verb

29 What the opening motif of 36-Across is said to represent 30 Response to “Grazie!” 33 Epithet for a judge

35 Lover of Radames, in opera 36 Muscly

37 Tribe that fought the Iroquois

38 Servings with sweet-andsour sauce 39 Summer Triangle star 40 ___ position 45 Something editable using

CRISPR technology 47 Oscar winner Marlee 48 Cooling-off period?

49 First name of this puzzle’s dedicatee, born December 1770

51 Copland ballet with a hoedown 52 Longtime star of F.C. Barcelona 53 A lot

56 What 49-Down became in later life 57 Prefix with Cuban

58 Ill. neighbor 59 Formal “yes” 60 Reef predator