THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bit in a fish tank 5 June celebrant, for short 9 Having trouble with 14 Repeating segment of computer code 15 Q5 or Q7 16 Lump in one’s throat 17 Well-behaved sister? 19 Lustrous fabrics 20 “That doesn’t seem right” 21 Dangerous virus 22 Cuba ___ (cocktail) 23 Evidence of a cat fight? 26 Quite distant 28 Insult, informally 29 Spring sound 31 Serious damage to one’s reputation 34 “Westworld” airer 37 TV bleep? 40 Devious 41 Like chlorine gas 42 Swarm 43 Important ID 44 Dangerous things to do at busy intersections 45 Impolite press conference attendees? 53 Casanova’s desire 54 Critic with raised or lowered thumbs 55 Nincompoop 58 ___ New Guinea 59 Part of the queen’s tea service? 61 Fix, as text 62 Religious leader usually sporting a beard 63 Up for something 64 Dangerous 65 Unsupportive votes 66 What teens do that most twenty somethings don’t

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1 “Real dogs eat meat” sloganeer 2 Title for Voldemort 3 Tinker Bell, e.g. 4 Google Maps, for one 5 About whom Bette Davis said “Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft” 6 Extended sentence? 7 21+ 8 Alice’s cat in “Through the LookingGlass” 9 Small Eurasian songbird 10 Makes use (of) 11 Disney’s fourth animated feature film 12 Final Oldsmobile model 13 Alternative to a truncheon 18 Suffix with mountain 24 Some catering equipment 25 Falco of “The Sopranos” 26 Fundamentals 27 Word with weather or ball 30 Prepares 31 Part of two majorleague team names 32 Numerical prefix 33 A firecracker goes in one 34 Goes by livery taxi 35 Hairstyling factor 36 111 things? 38 Roadwork indicator 39 Take the show on the road 43 William who cowrote “The Elements of Style” 45 Elaborate theft, in movies 46 Taste quality 47 Know the ___ 48 TV chef Jacques 49 U.S. president with the most southerly birthplace 50 Circuit section 51 Some light rail options 52 And so on, briefly 56 Competition with minimal apparel 57 Send out a jet 60 Dinosaur’s starting place