NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Richie and Ralph’s pal on “Happy Days” 7 Shakespearean title 11 Misbehaving 14 “Knocked Up” director Judd 15 Tribe at Council Bluff

16 First word of the Lord’s Prayer 17 Teaching catchphrase popularized by “The Karate Kid” 19 Sports ___ 20 Spot for a yacht 21 Resealable container for chips or cheese 23 Place to get a perm

26 Jean who wrote “Wide Sargasso Sea”

27 Spot for a yacht 30 Rhinoceros’s skin, essentially 32 Portrayer of Cruella de Vil in 1996’s “101 Dalmatians” 35 Portia de Rossi, to Ellen DeGeneres 38 Customize, as a

video game 39 She reads the

signs 41 Animated movie villain with Minions

42 Lions, Tigers or

Bears 44 Connection point for a smartphone cable 46 Trades 48 Should pay 49 Indian flatbread 50 Biblical verb with “thou”

52 One using Monster.com

55 Alpo alternative 59 “We Like ___” (old campaign slogan) 60 Covert means of communication

… or what’s hiding in the circled letters? 63 Compete 64 The Beatles’ “Let ___” 65 “Couldn’t tell ya!” 66 Gobble up 67 Edamame beans

68 Show the door

Down

1 What dogs “shake” with 2 Australia’s national gem 3 Prepare to go on

the runway 4 Comes calling 5 B+, e.g.

6 “Gross!”

7 Trap, as a car 8On

9 “Hilarious!,”

briefly

10 Twist out of

shape 11 Loser of tennis’s Battle of the Sexes 12 Mysterious vibes 13 What a Pride Day parader might dress in

18 ___ dye 22 Vittles 24 Raggedy ___ (dolls) 25 Prepare for a hockey game 27 Powers that be: Abbr. 28 Sunburn soother 29 Really sunburned 30 “Gimme just ___” 31 Do some farrier’s work on 33 What frugal people make do with 34 Ball in the sky

36 Be in a dither 37 What the “€” symbol stands for

40 Makes the cut? 43 [Blown kiss] 45 Royal attendants 47 Wolf-headed Egyptian god 49 Finnish-based consumer electronics giant 50 Hockey feints 51 Tolkien beast 52 Nonsense talk 53 ___ alphabet 54 Soft-serve chain 56 ___ Domini 57 It might start with “For Starters”

58 Part of a TV schedule

61 That dude’s 62 Ending with many fruit names