The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Somewhat 5 Scottish

delicacy 11 Arabian

stimulant 14 ___ list

15 Still 16 Colorful card

game

17 One side of St. George’s Channel 18 First set of circled letters 20 Like some synthetic colorants 21 Stand-in,

maybe 22 Instrument anyone can play 23 Second set of

circled letters 27 Game often played on car rides 28 Vardalos of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” 29 Like a

racehorse 32 Bonds, e.g. 35 Its motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain” 36 Like Tylenol

PM, for short 39 “___ you not

entertained?” 40 About 1,400 of them is the record for a human: Abbr. 42 Attic construction 43 Barrymore and Liu’s “Charlie’s Angels” co-star 45 Yadda yadda

yadda 48 Impetus for a bungee jump, maybe

49 ESPN broadcaster Bob

50 Parlays

53 Third set of

circled letters 58 Verb for a

dieter

60 Home in the

woods

61 Crack 62 Faction in China’s Cultural Revolution … or a hint to each set of circled letters

65 River through

Bath, England 66 “Rogue ___” 67 River paralleled by I-80 through a long stretch of the Plains 68 Mannerly

man

69 Pick up

70 In the trash 71 Delta 88, e.g.,

informally

Down

1 Starters 2 Russian

wolfhound 3 “The Complete ___ Guide to …” (popular book series) 4 Shipping unit 5 Golfer Walter with 11 major championships 6 Smithereens 7 Searching

blindly

8 Subj. of a Kaplan prep course 9 Eastern Med.

land 10 Commercial

interest 11 Quest for

knowledge? 12 A.D. part 13 Like some orders 19 Tibia connectors 21 Tharp of

dance

24 Black ___ 25 Nobelist Bohr 26 “Grand Hotel”

actress

30 Be in the red 31 Dollop 33 Range located along the 60th meridian 34 Things in

pools

36 Like the number of games in a “best of” series 37 One in la

familia 38 Mesh for securing items in a truck bed 41 Lacking sauce? 44 1983 Woody

Allen film 46 What knitters need to match, often

47 Govt. org. whose funding is perennially debated 51 Commit a court violation 52 Baseball position, informally 54 Take in 55 Pan-fry 56 Hyper

57 Lets

58 All atwitter 59 Pointer for a

meteorologist? 63 Rapper

___ Rida 64 Scale notes 65 Past