THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Adhering to old- fashioned modesty

5 Congeal, as blood

9 Gate closer

14 Green precious stone 15 Years and years and years

16 Honolulu hello

17 * Game- quickening timer in basketball

19 Arabian Peninsula nation 20 Charlotte ___ ( rich dessert)

21 Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush

22 Food unit counted by a dieter

25 Budgetary excess

26 Golf ball propper- upper

27 Columbus campus, briefly

28 * Snowbirds’ destination 30 Cartoondom's Olive ___ 31 Wealth

33 Tie, as figure skates 35 Clobber in the ring 36 Weirdo

37 Miss America accessory 40 President saying "No!" 43 Utter failure

45 Govt. of the Rebs 47 * Long vegetable with a yellow pod

49 Game of pursuit

50 Take part in 49- Across 51 Mel honored in Cooperstown

52 Ships' direction controllers

54 Mischievous

56 Spunk

57 Small food fish

58 List of popular songs … or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues 62 Hairlike projections on cells

63 Wagner's “Liebestod,” e. g.

64 Something an arrested person tries to “make” 65 Playful river animal 66 Some "big" burgers 67 Reb's foe

DOWN

1 Nighttime wear, familiarly 2 Cheerleader's cry

3 Words solemnly sworn 4 Subway system

5 Swede who developed a temperature scale 6 Ease up on

7 Without repetition

8 Sound of disapproval 9 Purchase for a newborn 10 “Jeopardy!” host Trebek 11 * Marinara sauce thickener

12 Vice president between Gore and Biden

13 Fairy tale boy who outsmarts a witch

18 Mean witch's pronouncement

21 Soft mineral

22 Bottle stopper 23 Landmass bounded by a mountain chain and three oceans

24 * Dispenser of psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown 25 Notable achievement 29 Book jacket write- up 32 What might turn up dirt on someone?

34 Stars- and- stripes land, for short

36 Call at a deli or barbershop

38 What psychological trauma may leave

39 Swine

41 Like a midlevel general or a so- so movie 42 Hippocratic ___ 43 Social gaffe

44 “Slumdog Millionaire” setting

45 Cooking oil brand 46 Peak

48 Steamy

53 Churchill Downs event 55 1970s tennis champ Nastase

56 Sorvino of “Mighty Aphrodite”

58 Overly theatrical type

59 Motorists’ org. 60 Racket

61 Animal with a rack