The New York Times crossword puzzle

1 Parson’s

home 6 Fictional hero who cries “I am madness maddened!” 10 Question

persistently 14 Single

source? 15 Checks or

balances, say 17 Animal with fused toes, used for grooming its coat

18 Almond treats 19 Last

21 Chain with a mansard roof in its logo 22 Autocorrection? 23 Cooper’s

product 25 Name that sounds like a letter of the alphabet 26 Fried turnovers from southern Italy

30 P.R. people:

Abbr.

34 Walk way? 35 “Round cleans better” sloganeer 37 “Looky here!” 38 Champaign

region

Across

41 Punnery, e.g. 42 Keep cooler? 43 Shiraz and others

44 Home to Mayor La Guardia’s “Talk to the People” program 46 Oscar winner for “The Accidental Tourist” (1988)

49 ___ moment 51 This might come with breakfast in bed, in brief 52 Brisbane-toSydney dir. 53 What barflies

hit

58 “Turn around so I can see you”

60 Part of the George W. Bush era ... or a hint to part of 18-, 26-, 38and 46-Across 62 Seeing red 63 Slangy “treatment” for a disturbing visual

64 Singer Cleo with Grammy nominations in jazz, pop and classical

65 See 61-Down 66 Where Al Jazeera is headquartered 67 Flat bottoms 1 Blush, e.g. 2 1972 Gilbert O’Sullivan hit with the lyric “Left standing in the lurch at a church” 3 Boston in the ’60s or Chicago in the ’90s, e.g. 4 Recipient of the first Vulcan nerve pinch on the original “Star Trek” 5 Professional concerned with search engine optimization 6 Word with band or candy 7 Junker 8 Business opening? 9 Major downer

Down

10 Main ingredient in a Thai som tam salad 11 “Riders of the Purple Sage” setting 12 Course

catalog? 13 Sibilant

summons 16 “Cabaret”

name

20 Poetic

contraction 24 “Club” member in a hit 1985 adventure comedy 27 Minor blemish 28 Instant 29 Roster for William Morris or Creative Artists

31 The ultimate

struggle

32 “I call dibs” 33 Adoption of the International Radiotelegraph Convention in 1906

36 Live tweets? 38 [Gag]

39 Tested, as a cask, to see how much whiskey remains 40 Major PBS funder, for short

45 Wrinkly fruit 47 1980s sitcom

puppet

48 More than 7% of Minnesotans, by ancestry 50 Spoils 53 Gangbusters,

in old slang 54 “Howdy!” 55 Shangri-la 56 Onetime labor and transportation secretary Elaine 57 Chisel, in a way 59 Analogue of “aloha” and “shalom” 61 With 65-Across, “Born to Hand Jive” group