The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across 1 Bountiful 6 Nobelist Wiesel 10 Something that might be kept in a bar 13 Like O negative vis-à-vis O positive 14 Turn over 15 You, long ago 16 *Sycophant 18 Let (out) 19 Condition for Jack Nicholson’s character in “As Good as It Gets,” in brief 20 Arias, usually 21 Less coarse 22 All things considered 24 Oil-rich region 25 Before 27 *Classic ginand-grenadine cocktail 29 Entrepreneur’s goal 32 Pieces that can go left or right 33 One of L.B.J.’s presidential dogs

34 ___ milk 36 Pitch in

37 Lip 40 Metaphor for experience 42 Alternative to O 44 *Military medal 48 ___ Lewis, “The Taste of Country Cooking” writer 49 Sonata closers 50 1996 hit with the lyric “It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife” 53 Good trait 54 TV executive Arledge 55 Rich source of omega-3 fatty acids 58 “Gotcha!” 59 *Annual Florida football game 61 Mine layer 62 Biographer Leon

63 Fix for shortsightedness 64 Playful suffix with “best” 65 Egg ___ 66 Three of the last seven words in Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Down

1 Ship that Athena helped build, in myth 2 Podcaster Maron

3 Tyrannosaurus rex, for one 4 “BlacKkKlansman” director, 2018 5 Physicist Mach who lent his name to a measure of speed 6 Measure opposed to strip mining, e.g. 7 Landlocked African country 8 Day in ancient Rome 9 Suffix with rocket

10 Jazz group 11 Classic work famously translated by John Dryden

12 Sell out 15 Pre-Olympic

events

17 Japanese theater 21 Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts

23 Lug 24 Faceplanted, say 25 “Bleah!” 26 Canada’s Grand-___ National Historic Site 28 Alternative to a pilsner 30 Scalding 31 Land down under? 35 Bagged leaves? 37 Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes … or what “corrects” the answer to each of the starred clues

38 Actor McKellen 39 New corp. hire, maybe 40 Cash in 41 Team named after its official state bird 43 J.F.K. Library architect 44 Prepare, as a pot roast 45 Sports column 46 Vote out 47 Online troublemakers 51 Singer whose name sounds like a cry of horror

52 Just 54 Overhaul 56 Boo-boo 57 Cougars’ prey

59 Until now 60 Modern term of endearment