The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Word before bar or party

7 Athena’s winged companion

10 Hype (up)

13 Diamond official 14 Sulk

16 “___, fi, fo, fum”

17 *Drivers’ process when two lanes of traffic become one

19 Antitrust law enforcement org.

20 Sick

21 Bizarre

22 Ancient Greek market

24 The windows to the soul, it’s said

26 *Garden plant that opens and shuts its “mouth” when squeezed

28 Pony up

30 Brand of sunglasses

31 Syria’s Bashar al___

34 French word after “vous”

36 When you’re on it, you’re en pointe 38 *White pizza toppings

42 Sacramento- toSan Diego dir.

43 Long stretches

44 What you’ve got going for you

45 Threaten, as a cat might

48 Puncher’s tool 49 *Design on some baseball uniforms

52 Bus driver for Lisa and Bart

56 Darkest part of a shadow

57 They’re sworn

59 Burgle

60 Brown who wrote “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”

61 Accept and let go of something … or a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues

64 Vitamin supplement retailer

65 Munich Mrs.

66 Official declarations

67 Laugh sound

68 ___ mode

69 Major-leaguer who wears

49-Across at home

DOWN

1 Q preceder, in song

2 Poet Dickinson

3 Jobs creation

4 “Let ‘er ___!”

5 Gaffer, best boy and others

6 Inquisition charge

7 Work from Bellini or Rossini

8 Popular blogging platform

9 Tote

10 Espresso-over-ice cream desserts

11 Time keeper

12 Pie nut

15 Like some people at weddings and funerals 18 Lowest part of a range, for short

23 Chitter-chatter

25 Old-fashioned shoe cover

27 Inexact recipe amount

29 Hubbub

31 They can be sculpted and chiseled

32 You might order ahi tuna or yellowtail from it 33 “East of Eden” author

34 Moving 35 Wine vessel

37 Abbr. on a cornerstone

39 Close by

40 Uncooked

41 Home of the Viking Ship Museum

46 Azerbaijan or Lithuania, once: Abbr.

47 Wizard’s accessory

48 Daughter of Joe and Jill Biden

49 Chubby

50 Italian city in a “Kiss Me, Kate” song

51 [waves hand in a circle]

53 Something weighed at a weigh station

54 Linzer _ _ _ (pastry)

55 Very corpulent

58 Pop

62 Glass of “This American Life”

63 Missing letters in “transgre_s_o_,” appropriately