THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 What you might do if you skip a step

5 Like oldfashioned diapers

10 "Selma" director DuVernay

13 NNNN review

14 "Tiny Bubbles" crooner

15 Onetime ruler in the Winter Palace

16 Insomniac's complaint

19 Japanese lunch box

20 Root beer brand

21 Half-___ (coffee option)

22 Alternative to

Tide or Cheer

23 Leaving dirty dishes on the counter, say

27 ___ cava

28 Firefighter tool

29 Limit

31 Part of a Swiss roll?

33 Ambulance figure, for short

34 Green stone

35 Rain heavily

36 Sexy detective

38 Bay ___

39 Force on the ground

40 Abbr. in a criminal profile

41 Like the posts at the top of a blog, typically

43 Growling dog

44 Showy neckwear

45 Fifth book of the New Testament

46 Works like an anti-aging serum

49 West Coaster's summer hrs.

52 Fed-up feeling

53 Certain library loan

54 Lessen, as fears

56 Liquid evi denced by the answers to this puzzle's italicized clues?

60 Tiny bit

61 Off the table?

62 Part of N.B.

63 First word of many California city names

64 "___ Anatomy"

65 General ___ chicken

DOWN

1 Group making a reservation?

2 Go-kart, e.g.

3 Ex of the Donald

4 Confined, with "up"

5 Contents of jewel cases, for short

6 Nabokov novel

7 Last year before A.D.

8 1931 boxing movie for which Wallace Beery won a Best Actor Oscar

9 "___ on it!"

10 "Yeah, whatever"

11 & 12 Actress Joan whose last name consists of two different conveyances

15 Contraction that starts "Jabberwocky"

17 Cat or top hat, in Monopoly

18 Oil crisis?

24 Completely jumbled

25 Wiped out

26 Ralph who wrote "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"

27 Not stay the same

30 Split tidbit

31 Grounds for discussion?

32 Alliterative ice cream flavor

33 H, as in Athens

34 Highestgrossing film before "Star Wars"

35 ___-12 (N.C.A.A. con ference)

37 "As you wish," to a spouse

42 Allen or Hawke

44 Rush-hour sound

45 Actress Hepburn

47 The Krusty ___ (SpongeBob SquarePants's workplace)

48 Egg-shaped

49 Bends at a barre

50 "Book 'em, ___!"

51 Rug rats

55 Rainbow flag initialism

56 Letters at a filling station?

57 Org. with ties to Sinn Fein

58 Part for tuning a guitar

59 Connections