The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Mined

5 Cents

9 Male

13 Sum

14 Ceded

15 Peeks

16 Mustard

18 Whit

19 We

20 Writes

22 Meet

23 Bass

24 Handsome

27 Tale

29 Knows

32 Missal

34 Lickers

36 Sites

38 Clothes

39 Rolls

40 Bate

41 Throe

42 Lodes

43 Wring

44 Flour

46 Hoes

48 Blew

49 Hews

51 Sine

53 Re

56 Flea

59 Rhodes

60 Slight

63 Inn

64 Dun

65 Steak

66 Chute

67 Instants

68 Bye

Down

1 Heisman winner Newton

2 On

3 Broccoli ___

4 English poet Sitwell

5 Introspective query

6 Not pay attention during a lecture, say

7 She’s sheared

8 ___ the Giant, first inductee in the W.W.E. Hall of Fame

9 It starts “On my honor, I will do my best …”

10 Watson or Thompson of 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast”

11 Diamond with

21 platinum albums

12 Army awards just below Medals of Honor: Abbr.

15 One for whom work is play?

17 Ones spinning webs?

21 Comment during bidding

23 Troubles with timber

24 Bills that one doesn’t mind piling up

25 Believed with no questions asked

26 Megaphone noise

28 ___ Sea, body greatly diminished by Russian irrigation projects

30 Some works at MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago

31 Big name in household appliances

33 160 acres per farmer, in the Homestead Act of 1862

35 Classical rebuke

37 Fast-forwarded, with “up”

39 Max ___, popular video game series of the 2000s

43 Vice president after Biden

45 Declaration on a Chinese menu

47 Grayish to yellowish brown

50 One who may order an operation, informally

52 Designer Donna

53 Pleased

54 Priest from on high?

55 “Are you ___ out?”

56 Kramer and Kramer, in “Kramer vs. Kramer”

57 Material for a mountain cabin

58 ___ James, 2008 Beyoncé role

61 One of the Gabors of old Hollywood

62 Suffix with saw