The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0921

Across

1 Common sans-serif font 6 Citi Field predecessor 10 Stop up … or talk up 14 Unit for a lorry 15 News agency for a 57-Down 16 Make less difficult 17 Flying furry friend from Frostbite Falls, formally 20 Mayonnaise, for one 21 ___ choy 22 Entry in an equine family tree

23 New York sports fan’s purchase 28 Students may pass them 30 Six-legged creature, to an entomologist 31 Hazmat suit features 35 Wine casks 36 Rigoletto, for one 39 Detach gradually (from) 41 Diminishes by degrees 42 Uhura portrayer Zoë 44 Something boring 49 1962 François Truffaut film classique 53 “Bite ___ tongue!” 54 British record giant 55 Trattoria shot 57 Spring into action … or an apt directive for 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across 61 Go round and round 62 Defaulter’s auto, often 63 Students may pass them 64 “Ant-Man” star Paul 65 “And I should care because …?” 66 Porterhouse cousin

Down

1 Not moving 2 One sharing a Wi-Fi password, maybe 3 Racks up, as debt 4 Jewelry worn by Barbara Stanwyck in “Double Indemnity” 5 Dregs 6 Pony Express’s Missouri terminus, informally 7 Lacks 8 Lawyer’s title: Abbr. 9 Sch. with a Phoenix campus 10 Give a long, grandiloquent speech 11 Buttercup family member with irregularly shaped blossoms 12 “What’s

the ___?”

13 It secures locks 18 O’Brien who wrote “The Things They Carried,” 1990 19 Alpine goat 24 Wail on a 33-Down 25 “Full House” uncle 26 Forever, seemingly 27 QB rating factor: Abbr. 29 Div. in a “Law & Order” spinoff 32 Nobel Prizewinning daughter of the Curies 33 Fender model, familiarly 34 Eye, in Ávila 36 Phone screening service 37 Movie screening service 38 Bag-screening org. 39 Financial news inits. 40 French quencher 43 “___ sure you know …” 45 Colorist’s task 46 Took on, as a challenge 47 19th-century author who wrote “Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief” 48 Michigan’s ___ Pointe 50 Cherokees, for example 51 Playground comeback 52 Dashboard fig. 56 Tony-winning musical that begins and ends on Christmas Eve 57 Kazakhstan, once: Abbr. 58 Its speed is usually measured in GHz 59 “My man” 60 Albanian coin