THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Powerful singer’s asset, informally

11 Prophet in the Book of Mormon

15 Gelato alternative

16 Like ___ of worms

17 Pioneer in heliocentric theory

18 Fishing floats

19 Baht : Thailand :: ___ : Laos

20 +, $ or @

21 Observed visiting

23 Imperial sticks, say

25 San Francisco’s ___ Tower

27 Dismal turnout

28 End of a letter

30 Backstage Broadway worker

32 Unmitigated disaster, in slang

35 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr.

38 Raptors’ home: Abbr.

39 Shoebox spec

40 Second-in-command at a corp.

41 Leonardo da Vinci drawing featuring superimposed body positions

45 Very light

46 They roll in 50 Erie or Miami

51 D.C. tourist destination

54 Senate majority leader who succeeded Dole

55 The house of Versace?

57 Vanquish

59 Bucolic expanse

60 Having a scrap

61 John Nash’s field of mathematics

64 Narrow margin

65 A question of cosmology

66 Mime and puppetry, e.g.

67 Went door to door?

DOWN

1 Twisted types

2 Cannes star

3 CNN newsman Jake

4 Copa Mundial cry

5 You may visit a lot of them before Christmas

6 Kind of attack

7 Covent Garden architect Jones

8 Spreads out in a park?

9 Euro forerunner

10 Time in therapy, e.g.: Abbr.

11 Shia who’s not a Muslim

12 Cost-effective

13 Cayenne’s hotter cousin

14 Like much FM radio

22 Implore

24 Human appendage?

26 “Count ___” (calming advice)

29 They’re traded in the Chicago Board of Trade

31 Feel

33 Affect

34 Hector’s father

35 2015 Literature Nobelist Alexievich

36 Certain chemistry lab apparatus

37 Immanuel Kant, for one

42 Purchase incentives

43 In a 6-Down

44 It’s nothing

47 Bit of computer programming executed repeatedly

48 Perpetual, poetically

49 Didn’t take off

52 “Brigadoon” composer

53 Theorbos, e.g.

56 Ottoman chiefs

58 Soften

62 Cardinals’ home: Abbr.

63 “My God!,” as cried by Jesus