N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
No. 1110
Across
1 Event with a king and queen 5 Power ___ 9 Free 12 Locale of the sculpture “La Bocca della Verità” 13 French composer Gabriel 14 Actor Jon of “Mad Men” 15 Lighter side? 16 Netflix activity 17 It may require gloves, for short 18 Getting tons of calls 21 Fish whose name is a calculator number turned upside down 22 Jockey with a speeding Citation 23 Hornets and the like 28 Alpha dog 29 No matter how 31 Windy City transportation inits. 32 “Who, me?” 33 Dear companion? 36 Course coda 39 National Dog Day Mo. 40 “What greater gift than the love of a ___?”: Dickens 42 Wait anxiously 47 How bedroom furniture is often sold 50 Start of a flat, maybe 51 Minimal 52 ___ fighter (“Star Wars” vehicle) 53 100% 59 Plan to leave shortly? 60 Writer who said “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” 61 Colorful corn balls 63 Dairy Queen order 64 Vex 65 Suggestive 66 Counterterrorism org. 67 Jay’s place 68 Covering the waterfront
Down
1 Ask too many questions, say 2 Word rhyming with “ignore” in “I Am Woman” 3 Upscale hotel chain 4 Marvel Comics villain 5 Taxable amount for an investor 6 Small step up? 7 Old ship constellation 8 Mixed stock 9 Actress Phylicia 10 Words from the fashionably late 11 Key of Pachelbel’s Canon 13 Facility at Quantico 14 Food item often placed in a stack 19 Grandpa Walton portrayer 20 Compound under control by the Kyoto Protocol 23 Its chimes were the first U.S. registered “sound mark” 24 Tiny information unit 25 Hero in the Trojan War 26 “Brah!” 27 Boy or Girl follower 30 Star in Orion 34 It has much room to grow 35 Eastern V.I.P. 37 Void 38 Reagan confidant 41 Vowelless interjection 43 Many a Parliament Hill staffer 44 Tell 45 Doppelgänger 46 Record label whose name derives from Greek myth 47 The absolute worst 48 21-gun salutes, e.g. 49 Singer/actress Grande 54 Chances left after Slim left town, in a saying 55 Barzini and others, in “The Godfather” 56 Feature of a one-armed bandit 57 Part of the “sum” conjugation 58 Little Caesar in “Little Caesar” 62 History’s ___ Affair