The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Row

5 Worn out 10 The Kleenex of

cotton swabs 14 Predator of

dolphins 15 Press secretary ___ Huckabee Sanders

16 ___ Major (Big Dipper’s constellation) 17 4/4

19 Smidgen 20 Prepare to be

knighted 21 Indianapolis-toCleveland dir. 22 To whom “break a leg” is said

23 Period in

Congress 25 Basketball

highlight 27 11/11

32 Hay and such for farm animals

36 “The Raven”

poet

37 Prefix with

space 38 Girlfriends in

Paris

39 “Great Expectations” protagonist 40 Tiptoe, perhaps 41 Drug informant, informally 42 “The Lord of the Rings” baddie

43 Walk like a two-year-old, say

44 20/20 47 Trolley 48 Division of baseball’s N.L. or A.L. 53 Always trying to get one’s way

56 Green: Prefix 58 Wear away 59 European

automaker 60 50/50

62 “The Simpsons” character with a palindromic name 63 “Sexy” woman in a Beatles song

64 Start running 65 Butcher’s cut 66 Put in office 67 You are, south

of the border

Down

1 Argyle pair 2 Lying on one’s stomach 3 Zeniths

4 Takes the

wildness out of 5 I.R.S. digits: Abbr.

6 It lasts 20 years

7 The Emerald

Isle

8 Say “When I was with my good friend Barack last week …,” e.g. 9 Word ignored when alphabetizing 10 Something that gives you a sinking feeling 11 Home-run run 12 Analogy

words

13 Jack of the old

“Tonight Show” 18 Mount of ___ (Jerusalem landmark) 22 Advice-giving

Landers 24 “___ the land

of the free …” 26 Dubai’s home:

Abbr.

28 Some long novels 29 Monopoly

card

30 Asia’s disappearing ___ Sea 31 Oxen connector 32 Dracula’s biter 33 Vizquel with 11 Gold Gloves

34 Like some

straits 35 Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016 39 Really, really

old

40 One of 154 by

Shakespeare 42 Eggs

43 Lowest digit 45 Word repeated

before “again” 46 Like Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe painting 49 Onetime HBO series set in New Orleans 50 Standard

dog name 51 “Skyfall”

singer 52 Periods after Mardi Gras 53 Summer

hangout 54 “I’ve had it

___ here!” 55 Org. in Carl Sagan’s “Contact” 57 Surrender 60 Suffix in many language names 61 Ready

No. 0808