The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 ___ Day (early September observance)

6 Sound of a big kiss

11 ___ Today 14 Escape capture by

15 “Caveman diet,” familiarly

16 Catch in the act

17 Where flutes are played, in an orchestra

19 Color variant 20 Vanish into thin air

21 Peaceful, pastoral scene

23 Fuss

24 Vaping apparatus, informally

25 Qualifying hurdle for practicing law

32 Doily fabric

33 Triangular traffic sign

34 Goose egg

35 Enjoyed a smorgasbord, say

36 1950s presidential inits.

37 Bit of equipment in tennis and basketball

38 Breakfast restaurant chain

40 Pours down

42 Basmati, e.g.

43 Prehiring formality, often

46 ___ of the matter (pivotal point)

47 Liquor in a mai tai

48 ___ Keller, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree

50 Hawaiian raw fish dishes

56 Outback bird that can go two months without food

57 Betray … or a hint to what can precede each half of 17-, 25- and 43-Across

59 One of 24 in the human skeleton

60 Nobel-winning chemist Curie

61 Egyptian dam 62 U.F.O. pilots, some believe

63 Largest Greek island

64 Nuisances

Down

1 Apt rhyme for “rude” and “crude”

2 Et ___ (and others: Lat.)

3 Hot dog holders

4 “I’d wager that …”

5 Dwell

6 Org. with a Shelter Support Fund

7 LeBlanc of “Friends”

8 “That’s ___!” (“Not true!”)

9 Company head, for short

10 Camera brand that merged with Minolta in 2003

11 Not sanitary

12 AMC’s “Better Call ___”

13 Brother of Cain and Seth

18 Adhesive resin

22 Scatterbrained sort

24 Finish

25 Wash oneself

26 Card that can be either high or low in a deck

27 Gallagher of “The Umbrella Academy”

28 First responder on a battlefield

29 ___ Chaiken, co-creator of “The L Word”

30 Hoover competitor

31 Jot down

32 Home for a wild animal

39 Father: Fr.

40 Dinosaur in

“Toy Story”

41 Patch of loose rock that aptly rhymes with “debris”

42 Aching sense of guilt

44 Trio with a hip-hop cover of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”

45 Wheel cover that may be chrome-plated

48 Where “you are” on a mall directory

49 Give off

50 Unadulterated

51 Death notice, in brief

52 Abstract artist Paul

53 Really impresses

54 Hurdle for aspiring attorneys, for short

55 Tax IDs

58 Scull propeller