The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Powerful singer’s asset, informally 11 Prophet in the Book of Mormon 15 Gelato
alternative 16 Like ___
of worms 17 Pioneer in heliocentric theory 18 Fishing floats 19 Baht : Thailand :: ___ : Laos 20 +, $ or @ 21 Observed
visiting 23 Imperial sticks,
say 25 San Francisco’s
___ Tower 27 Dismal turnout 28 End of a letter 30 Backstage Broadway worker 32 Unmitigated disaster, in slang 35 Jeanne d’Arc,
e.g.: Abbr. 38 Raptors’
home: Abbr. 39 Shoebox spec 40 Second-incommand at a corp. 41 Leonardo da Vinci drawing featuring superimposed body positions 45 Very light 46 They roll in 50 Erie or Miami 51 D.C. tourist
destination 54 Senate majority leader who succeeded Dole 55 The house
of Versace? 57 Vanquish 59 Bucolic
expanse 60 Having a scrap 61 John Nash’s field of mathematics 64 Narrow margin 65 A question of
cosmology 66 Mime and
puppetry, e.g. 67 Went door
to door?
Down
1 Twisted types 2 Cannes star 3 CNN newsman
Jake 4 Copa Mundial
cry 5 You may visit a lot of them before Christmas 6 Kind of attack 7 Covent Garden architect Jones 8 Spreads
out in a park? 9 Euro forerunner 10 Time in therapy, e.g.: Abbr. 11 Shia who’s
not a Muslim 12 Cost-effective 13 Cayenne’s
hotter cousin 14 Like much
FM radio 22 Implore 24 Human
appendage? 26 “Count ___” (calming advice) 29 They’re traded in the Chicago Board of Trade 31 Feel 33 Affect 34 Hector’s father 35 2015 Literature Nobelist Alexievich 36 Certain chemistry lab apparatus 37 Immanuel
Kant, for one 42 Purchase
incentives 43 In a 6-Down 44 It’s nothing 47 Bit of computer programming executed repeatedly 48 Perpetual,
poetically 49 Didn’t take off 52 “Brigadoon”
composer 53 Theorbos, e.g. 56 Ottoman chiefs 58 Soften 62 Cardinals’
home: Abbr. 63 “My God!,” as cried by Jesus