THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1Fall apart in competition 5 Discards

10 Calculating sorts, in brief

14 Slews

15 Many- time film co- star of Shatner and Nimoy

16 2,800- mile river to the Laptev Sea

17 Hand on a hacienda 18 Chosen few

19 Given to pretension

20 Got plenty of healthful food

22 Some wind blowers 24 Model company? 25 Store with magazines

26 Tiny fey sort 27 Involuntary test subjects

31 Refusal in Inverness

32 Ocular affliction 34 Hero architect in “The Fountainhead” 35 Ones easily taken 36 Bad candidate for gymnastics

38 In history

39 It had more than 10 million subscribers in the 1990s

40 Knotty growth 41 Anniversary gift between pottery and steel 42 ___ Tzu ( dog)

44 Get comfy on a sofa or bed, say

46 Like some avant- garde music

48 It’s well- rounded 49 Image in the night sky over Gotham

51 ___ Balls ( snack items) 52 Second City train inits.

53 Very basic things 55 Wrapped up in court? 57 Pretended

58 Part of a flight 59 Grace’s last name on “Will & Grace” 60 Comment section disclaimer

61 Quite 62 Coffeehouse selection

63 Gather

64 Swamp dweller 65 Antiseptic brand since 1889 66 Diminutive Italian suffix

DOWN

1 “Hot” things

2 Slanted

3 “Butt out!”

4 Not anonymous

5 With 45- Down, effect used by astronomers to measure distance

6 Room in Clue

7 Barely make ( out) 8 Contemporary of Modernism

9 With 46- Down, chill out 10 Insured’s filing

11 Everyone’s duty?

12 Defense against infestation

13 Agrees

21 Potential dragon roll ingredient 23 Extraction target 28 You may follow in its wake

29 Stable figures? 30 Unyielding

33 17th ___ of Oxford, author of Shakespeare’s plays, by some accounts 35 London area next to Mayfair

37 Goof

39 Regarding

40 With 43- Down, make peace … or what you must do to complete this puzzle?

43 See 40- Down 44 Chuck who was part of the Watergate Seven 45 See 5- Down 46 See 9- Down 47 Great Plains tribe 50 Order in a rush order

51 Take care of 54 Tricky situation 56 Nonkosher deli orders

57 Act out