NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Dress in Delhi 5 Tree for a partridge, in a Christmas song 9 Pale 14 Used Facebook Messenger, for short 15 Prefix with -vore 16 Major purveyor of mattresses 17 “Everything ___ go!” 18 Big corporate news 20 Word repeated before “Me” in a Beatles hit 22 Worrier’s words 23 Canned 24 Tribal unit 25 Yours, to Yves 28 Visitors from another planet, in brief 29 It helps make you you 31 L.L. Bean competitor 33 “That’s all ___ got” 34 Left unexpectedly, in slang 36 Titled 38 Holiday purchase … or a hint to the circled letters 41 Deceive 42 Slangy frat house request 43 Number of lanterns “if by land” 44 Big water filtration brand 46 Australian critter 47 Little troublemaker 50 007 52 Fill to capacity 54 Award for which 8-Down, surprisingly, has never been nominated 56 Like a small room with a roaring fire 58 Stick (to) 59 1956 Mideast imbroglio 62 Redding who sang “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” 63 One using Monster.com, maybe 64 Cozy spot 65 Sunset direction 66 Like some binary questions 67 Horned African beasts 68 Grp. founded to resist Communism
Down
1 Easy as pie 2 It works like a charm! 3 Puts back to zero, say 4 Aid for returning a lost pet 5 Get ready for the camera 6 CPR expert 7 Wise as ___ 8 “Pretty Woman” co-star 9 Part of P.D.A.: Abbr. 10 Tone of some old photos 11 Occasion for a locker room pep talk 12 One of the Manning brothers 13 Its slogan is “All the News That’s Fit to Print”: Abbr. 19 “Citizen ___” 21 Pepsi or Sprite, quaintly 24 Marking, as a gauge 26 On top of 27 Iraq War danger, for short 30 It may be in the autumn air 32 Feeling unhappy or angry 34 Cricket implement 35 New Mexico-to-Missouri dir. 37 Boorish sort 38 Certain drunkard 39 Joins again, as a race 40 Expert 41 Easy ball to smash 45 Red state, once, for short 47 Component of an Arnold Palmer 48 ___ College (school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) 49 Magician’s cry 51 “Dirty” number 53 1980s-’90s heavyweight champ Mike 55 Demonstrated 57 Height: Prefix 58 Inquires 59 Not comfortable with the limelight 60 One-eighty 61 Debtor’s note