THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Areas where clerics are seated

6 Play’s counterpart

11 Beldam

14 Thin layer of foam at the top of an espresso

15 Selling point

16 The Jazz, on sports tickers

17 Add, British-style

18 Business circles?

20 “Our remedies ___ in ourselves do lie”: Shak.

21 Character assassination, for one

23 Collapse

25 Bit of work

26 Brand that’s a shortened description of its flavor

27 “Heavens to Murgatroyd!”

31 James, Jimmy or John

32 “Heavens to Murgatroyd!”

33 Omegas represent them

35 Savage of “Savage Love”

36 Cousin of a fjord

37 ___ party

38 Post cereal with an apostrophe in its name

41 Familia members

42 Genre for Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

44 Quiet (down)

47 Toon who wears a red hair bow

49 Zhou ___

51 Mac : Scottish :: ___ : Arabic

52 They open in the morning

53 Type for who this clue will be annoying?

57 It’s stretched out in yoga class

58 Iconic part of Nancy Sinatra’s early attire

59 Kennedy colleague

61 Café freebie

62 Year abroad

63 Unlikely donor

64 Pres. whose given birth name was David

65 Does business

66 Alternative nickname for Liz

DOWN

1 Hurricane or flood

2 Perfunctory

3 Get cozy

4 Bird that leaves this print:

5 Boobs

6 Law school, so it’s said

7 Pungent cheese

8 One who might need an ID

9 Broken-off branch

10 “___ Brand” (Nathaniel Hawthorne tale)

11 Rush

12 Verdi opera based on a historic invader

13 Stranded motorist’s boon

19 Eating things

22 Promised one

24 Nobelist Hammarskjöld

28 Rings

29 A batter receives four for a grand slam

30 Shark-jumping sitcom character

34 Beauty ___

38 Bull, essentially

39 Highly anticipated social events

40 Work with intelligence?

41 Latin lover’s words

43 One may be essential

44 Classified

45 Foray

46 Hound

48 Doorframe part

50 Repeated boast in a 1987 #1 hit

54 Super

55 Author Jaffe

56 Foot type

60 Get down, in a way