The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Zeroes, in soccer
5 Comedic takedown
10 Includes
13 Peak of revelation?
14 Happen next
15 Lead-in to -cide
16 *A little bit of everything
18 Org. whose initials omit its “E” (for “Explosives”)
19 Lousy (with)
20 Instrument with a bell
21 First Muslim Nobel Laureate (1978)
23 Character with a famous opening line?
25 Resolve
26 Exposes personal information about online, informally
27 Cultured dessert option
30 Former Yankee nickname
31 Crown, in Persian
33 *1957 hit by the Edsels with a nonsense title
35 Depot: Abbr.
38 Indian spice mixes
40 Cue preceder
41 *”Eventually ...”
43 Casual rejection
45 So
46 Adolph who purchased The New York Times in 1896
48 Potentially offensive, say
52 Prepare for a kiss, perhaps
54 Home of some of the best drivers in No. America
56 Actress Juliette
57 Middling
59 Risk-taker’s mantra, in brief
60 Hoppy inits.
61 Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle’s starred clues
64 Cause of some head-scratching
65 “You shouldn’t have!”
66 Randy looks
67 Appreciated, as a joke
68 Overly involved
69 Campus health and safety org.
DOWN
1 Ex ___ (from nothing: Lat.)
2 Up the creek
3 “Past post” wager at the track, e.g.
4 One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills”
5 Winged mammal with rust-colored fur
6 Not snookered by
7 Arthur with a statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue
8 Appeal, as for peace
9 Like the responses of “yes” or “no”
10 Journey of the mind
11 Have no coconspirators
12 Gradual transition, in art
13 Very valuable violin, informally
17 Bean or noodle
22 Marginally
24 “Me, too!”
25 Brotherly greeting
28 Depression precursor
29 ___ Harbour, Fla.
32 Cured Spanish meat
34 Sitting meditation pose
35 Sign of an injury, maybe
36 Artoo’s partner
37 Measure of energy savings, as when the meter runs in reverse
39 1/3,600th of a deg.
42 Literature Nobelist Morrison
44 Extra-sweaty meditative exercise
47 Kind of sense
49 Like 20, for Little League
50 Like wood prepped for papermaking
51 Sects’ symbol?
53 Subject covered in a madrasa
55 Possible hurdle for getting a master’s, for short
57 Gets hard to see through, in a way, with “up”
58 Does impressions of
62 Need to pay
63 LAPD head?