THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1“Don’t be such a baby!”

6 Divest (of)

9 Easy gaits

14 O’Connor’s Supreme Court successor

15 Comedian Schumer

16 All thumbs

17 Longtime name on NBC’s “Today”

18 Home to the Kennedy Space Center, familiarly

20 Ballpark figures

22 Actors Helms and Harris 23 Opposite of trans-, with respect to gender

24 A welcome sight?

25 Ruckus

28 Unwanted guest

31 Some run to get in it

35 Inc., abroad

36 Euro denomination

37 Black Tuesday event

41 Sheltered from the wind

42 Latin word after post or ad

43 Correo ___ (Spanish airmail)

44 Any one of the stars of “Duck Soup”

48 Grp. once led by Arafat

49 Existential statement

50 Bonus sports periods, for short

51 W.W. II female

54 Go Dutch … or a hint to 20-, 28-, 37- and 44Across

57 Toronto athlete

60 Kate’s sitcom housemate

61 Chipped in, in a way

62 B’way posting

63 Stopwatch

64 Eats like a rodent

65 Old sailor

66 Beat handily

DOWN

1 Homer’s love

2 One way to think

3 Adidas alternatives

4 Four Corners-area tribe

5 Cayman and Cayenne

6 “To Kill a Mockingbird” theme

7 Muslim leader

8 “Awesome!”

9 Broadcast shown as it happens

10 Tip jar fillers

11___ capita

12 Org. concerned with ecology

13 Cardinal’s letters

19 T-Mobile rival

21 Padre’s hermano

25“Be ___ …” (request starter)

26 Not too quick on the uptake

27 Prefix with -pedic

29 Campaign poster word

30 Realtor’s unit

31 Overwhelm

32 Like much food cart meat

33 Old Olds

34 Movie trailer?

38 One in bondage

39 Least cramped

40 Buckets, perhaps

45 Ostriches and kangaroos, e.g.

46 Lusting after

47 Biblical suffix

51 One of the Flintstones

52 1979 sci-fi thriller

53 Court employee

54 Killed, as a dragon

55 Gold-medal skater Lipinski

56 Dot on a radar screen

57 Outside or InStyle, in brief

58___ Arbor, Mich.

59 “Harper Valley ___” (1968 #1 hit)