The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Royal Catherine
5 All-day, in a way
9 Rides
13 Agave lookalike
14 Spring, for one
15 Fancy summer home
16 Grocery store worker on the days leading up to Thanksgiving?
19 Dress (up)
20 Cheesemaking town
21 Salty expanses
22 Incense residue
23 One who’s acting out?
24 Some trimmings
25 Pamphlets on how to use marinara?
31 Lecherous sort
33 Beginning of time?
34 When doubled, mouse-bopping bunny in a children’s song
35 Sporty Pontiac
38 One with a tattoo of a band’s name, say
41 Oxygen makes up only one-fifth of this on the earth
42 Gossip, slangily
44 Part of some musical keys
45 Bookie?
50 Card game shout
51 Winners of a 1932 Australian “war”
52 Org. using millimeter wave scanners
55 Inedible jelly on a buffet table
58 49-Down’s city, familiarly
59 Shubert of Broadway’s Shubert Theatre
60 Devices that help dentists monitor anesthesia?
63 En pointe
64 Its flag has “Allahu Akbar” written
22 times
65 Repeated words in an analogy
66 Common catch
67 Hunt and peck, say
68 Pronto
Down
1 It gets into hot water
2 Chorus section
3 Inauspicious beginning
4 Certain whistleblower
5 Hardly basic
6 Personal friend in France
7 Something cephalopods control for camouflage
8 Units on a graduated cylinder: Abbr.
9 Fine point
10 ___-Seltzer
11 Campbell with the 1975 #1 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy”
12 2003 outbreak
15 Outspoken
17 Pelvis/patella connectors
18 Sticky ___ pudding
26 Author Rand
27 It’s set in a ring
28 Easy-peasy
29 Speckled
30 Maker of the first portable music player
31 Guess
32 Grammy winner India.___
36 When both hands are up
37 Unit of RAM
39 Passes, but not with flying colors
40 Shinzo ___, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister
43 Representative’s work
46 Powerful engines
47 Feature of many a belly
48 Angsty hip-hop subgenre
49 Prestigious university in
58-Across
53 Company whose mascots are sheep with numbers painted on them
54 Author whose titles often feature two animals
55 One with an upturned nose, so to speak
56 Common catch
57 CPR specialists
61 “Scram!”
62 Car once advertised with the slogan “The power to surprise”