THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “The Great” or “the Terrible” 8 Have more stripes than 15 Yankees closer Rivera 16 “Not gonna happen!” 17 Senselessness 18 Authentic 19 Like pork pie and clotted cream 21 Femme with a halo 22 Hustle 24 Eponymous physicist Ernst 25 Training tally 29 John with an Oscar 31 Bewildered 33 Turnpike ticket listings 35 Best Actress nominee for “Philomena,” 2013 37 Sorority character 38 Better adversary to deal with, in a saying 41 Unlikely husband material 42 Looks like a 41-Across 43 Name on an excavator 44 Old blacklisting org. 46 Brownies with cookies, maybe 48 Fostered 49 Turnovers, e.g. 51 Absorb 53 Activate, as a wah-wah pedal 55 Husband material 59 Genre for Ladysmith Black Mambazo 61 1984 biography subtitled “The Man, the Dancer” 63 Royal Stewart and Clan Donald 64 Bugs 65 Needs blessing, maybe 66 They play just north of the Ravens

DOWN

1 Queen’s longtime record label 2 Postal sheet 3 Only remaining home of the Asiatic cheetah 4 Sound repeatedly heard at a wedding reception 5 Flags down 6 Decoy 7 Little green men 8 Has way more than enough, for short 9 See 50-Down 10 Approximate end of a rush hour 11 Like some census data 12 Spot for spirited worshipers 13 Cape Ann’s area 14 It’s capped and often slapped 20 Something to enter with a card 23 TV character who fronted as a waste management consultant 25 [Gag!] 26 Aid in clearing the air 27 Apartment that’s a second home 28 No-frills: Abbr. 30 “Junior” or “senior” mil. figure 32 Like some stalled vehicles 34 French seasoning 36 Ginnie Mae’s dept. 39 One who might drug a boxer 40 ___ Mo’, threetime Grammy-winning bluesman 45 Hoffman won Best Actor for playing him 47 Chief flight attendant 50 1967 Cold War suspense novel by 9-Down 52 Florence’s ___ Palace 53 Scores of these may plague high schoolers 54 Less than slim 56 Chat, across the Pyrénées 57 Setting of Sisyphus’ perpetual rock-pushing 58 Almond or pecan 60 Additions after closings, in brief 62 One of three for Sisyphus?