The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0713

Across

1 Transform, as from one being into another

6 Send, as payment

11 Bro and sis

15 In the know

16 Beethoven’s “Für ___”

17 “Orinoco Flow” singer

18 Address every aspect of something

21 Ram’s ma’am?

22 Pseudonym of the essayist Charles Lamb

23 Impersonate

24 Bit of cunning

25 Part of a wineglass or watch

27 “Kill the ump!,” e.g.

28 Immediately

33 Proficient

34 Supervillain in Marvel comics

35 One way up a mountain

38 Potters’ materials

39 Email about big lottery winnings, usually

40 Illegal payment

41 ___ Sabe (the Lone Ranger, to Tonto)

42 Babe in the woods

43 Not off one’s rocker?

44 Oddly and unexpectedly

47 “Yo, what’s happening”

49 “Mm-hmm, it’s clear now”

50 Money to tide one over

51 One way boats come

53 Air-condition

54 Outburst in a nursery

57 Situation that starts things completely over

61 Be inclined (to)

62 “Awesome!”

63 Use the return key for

64 Things assayers assay

65 Pitchers

66 Cockamamie

Down

1 Self-defense spray

2 Response to a sting

3 Gush praise

4 Opposite of post

5 “Voilà!”

6 Kind of pitcher

7 Jazz legend Fitzgerald

8 Prestigious sch. in metro Boston

9 Kinda-sorta: Suffix

10 Shelters once made from buffalo skins

11 Sail the seven ___

12 Camper’s annoyance

13 One way to “play it”

14 Smartmouthed

19 Apportion

20 Go over terribly with an audience

24 Snide question to one issuing a challenge

25 Attack with a low flyover

26 The outsiders

28 Strain, as one’s brain

29 Like a team on a day off

30 Early record player

31 Effortless

32 Transportation in a Duke Ellington tune

36 Member of the first family

37 Actor Foxx of “Sanford and Son”

39 An umpire’s outstretched arms signifies this

40 Happened to, poetically

42 What gibberish makes

43 Piece of pub furniture

45 One for the road?

46 Units in a homecoming parade

47 Took care of

48 Certain worker in a stadium

52 Bygone G.M. product, informally

53 One who’s radio-active?

54 Electrical unit

55 Iowa college town

56 Ticker-tape parade honoree

58 “That’s disgusting!”

59 Tiny

60 Prey for a lion