NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Like night and

day 12 Take another

direction 15 Alternative to Pandora or Spotify 16 Words of praise 17 Became excited 18 Business

concern 19 2016 campaign

topic 20 Difficulty picking up subtleties 22 Comparative

indicator 25 Pool cover 27 Dormant 28 “Ain’t gonna

happen!” 30 Pretension 33 Loyalty, oldstyle 34 Timorese, e. g. 35 Richest part 36 Is dormant 38 Faced with

courage 40 Oxford

designation 41 Son- in- law of

Chief Powhatan 43 Ebbs 45 One getting depressed on the road 47 Person with a

mental bloc? 48 Itmay prey on a

ray 49 Team in

Houston 51 Inspiron maker 52 Means of keeping musical time 55 Date preceder 57 With 10- Down,

go wild 58 President Clinton hosted one in 2000 63 Football stat:

Abbr. 64 Big headache for a company rep 65 They have sgts. 66 Intuition about something soon to happen

Down

1 Drag accessory 2 “Well, I’ll be!” 3 Like hall- offame inductees, typically 4 Time for many TV talk shows, informally 5 Refinery

container 6 Fire on from

above 7 “The

Governator” 8 Valencian dishes 9 Also say 10 See 57- Across 11 Collette of “United States of Tara” 12 2- 3 or 1- 2- 2, in

basketball 13 “We agreed to it, so you’d better deliver” 14 Recharge, so to

speak 21 “Little Birds”

author 22 P. G. A. Championship airer 23 Goof off 24 Minority group 26 Crow, for one 29 Start of a billetdoux 31 Roadway

finisher 32 Knocked out 34 C. S. Lewis’s

symbol of Jesus 37 Edible part of a

mesquite tree 39 “Sudden Death”

star, 1995 40 A star might go

on one 42 Like a wet

noodle 44 Its artists do many sketches, for short 46 Too slick 47 Boggy 50 Counterpart of a

blitz 53 Pandora and

Spotify 54 Kind of walk 56 Deli case display 59 “___ ohev otach” ( Hebrew for “I love you”) 60 Staff 61 Government org. impersonated in many phishing scams 62 Starting point

for a hole