The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Name of five Norwegian kings 5 Words after work or museum 10 Former Iranian leader 14 How Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic 15 French department capital known in Roman times as Nemausus 16 ___ Nostra (crime group) 17 Rock and roll has one in Cleveland 19 Pro’s opposite 20 Org. that monitors gun sales 21 Reached 22 Shop employee 23 Words of greeting 26 Chandon’s partner in Champagne 27 Blossom-to-be 28 October birthstone 30 Play, as a guitar 33 Dem.’s counterpart 36 1980s cop show that TV Guide once ranked as the greatest TV drama of all time 40 Dollar bill 41 Robber 42 Singer Fitzgerald 43 Battery for a TV remote 44 Window unit 46 James Earl Jones or Tommy Lee Jones 53 Zones 54 String quartet instrument 55 An evergreen 57 Gentlemen 58 Ruckus 60 Made off with 61 Freezing rain 62 Mexico’s ___ California 63 One-named New Age singer 64 Succinctly put 65 What the Ugly Duckling became

Down

1 Worker protection org. 2 Reluctant (to)

3 Like the band Josie and the Pussycats 4 Stereo control: Abbr. 5 Walking 6 Saks ___ Avenue 7 Former Italian P.M. whose name means “beloved” 8 Cut again, as grass 9 China’s Mao ___-tung 10 Reduced, with “back” 11 Beehive product 12 Houston player 13 Poem like “The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer’s small herald” 18 Devour with the eyes 22 Cookie morsel 24 Laze 25 Share a border with 28 “Well, what have we here!” 29 Brooch

30 ___ Lanka 31 Item in a golfer’s pocket 32 B-ball official 33 Alternative to arbitrary governance 34 Wriggly fish 35 Smokey Bear ad, e.g., for short 37 Doesn’t leave 38 Deice 39 Gave for a while 43 State that the Arctic Circle passes through 44 Aesthetic taste 45 “Call me ___!” “O.K., you’re …!” 46 Proverbial waste maker 47 Heavenly hunter 48 “Bad, bad” Brown of song 49 Small egg 50 Houston player, once 51 Metes (out) 52 Spanish wine region, with “La” 56 Horse whose coat is sprinkled with white hairs 58 F.D.R.’s successor 59 “Six-pack” muscles

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