THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Creatures under Wayne Manor 5 6’7” Sixers #6 8 Walks and balks 13 Court giant Arthur 14 Maker of the old Speed Wagon 15 Takes over 17 HOUSE 19 Hemingway who wrote “Out Came the Sun” 20 “Rumour ___ It” (2011 Adele hit) 21 Skin-care brand whose active ingredients are oat compounds 23 Ancient sun worshiper 24 You, more formally 25 APPLE 27 Genius Mixes program 29 She played Rosemary in “Rosemary’s Baby” 30 Rightmost number on an Italian clock 31 Simpson who lost a crossword contest in 2008 32 State nobody wants to live in 34 “___ out!” 35 MAC 39 “I learned to be a movie critic by reading ___ magazine”: Roger Ebert 42 GPS suggestion 43 Places where people have withdrawals? 47 Galoot 48 Choose 49 Sports entertainment show since 1993 51 CHEESE 55 The “E” of 14-Across 56 Observe 57 Bring to a boil 58 ___ wheels 59 Supported 61 “Shoot for the moon!” … or a hint to interpreting the clues to 17-, 25-, 35- and 51Across 63 European river that inspired Smetana 64 Baseball’s ___ Desmond, three-time Silver Slugger Award winner 65 Alternatively 66 Message board admin 67 Sudden turn 68 Gardener’s bane DOWN 1 Aromatherapy substance 2 Single-named singer with the 2002 hit “Foolish” 3 Ariadne helped him navigate the Labyrinth 4 Jiffy 5 Tees off 6 Magazine urging 7 Hardly serious 8 Heavyweight bout venue 9 Screeners’ org. 10 Golden 11 Christian supergroup? 12 007 movie after “Skyfall” 16 Heavy-metal band with a killer sound? 18 Word with fast or fire 22 “Spare me!” 26 Comic actor Danny 28 Slangy negative 32 Be alongside 33 Instinctive 36 Longtime Yankee nickname 37 Took care of the last bit 38 Norma ___ (Sally Field title role) 39 11/2-liter bottle 40 Fitting 41 Like the Hallows in a Harry Potter title 44 Quake 45 Torpor 46 Drank, as from a flask 49 Undertaking, as a war 50 “Say ___” 52 Water and sunlight, for plants 53 David ___, longtime Red Sox slugger 54 Faith founded in Persia 60 Thai neighbor 62 ___ Gardens, N.Y.