The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Gives the boot 5 Tickled

9 Welfare

13 ___ Sedgwick, 1960s

“It Girl”

14 Wine: Prefix 15 Regional life

17 React to pyrotechnics, say 19 Showing humility, say 20 * Needlepoint, e. g. 21 Closed violently

22 Layer of an Italian muffuletta sandwich 24 Through

26 ___ Style Awards

( annual honors since 1997) 27 Info on a highway billboard 28 Lights up?

31 Partner of older

33 * Sets the odds for 34 Accent

36 Team with home games at SunTrust Park

40 East African native 42 Greet someone, informally 44 Preceder of the Three Kingdoms, in Chinese history 49 Superbright

50 * Plumber/ carpenter types 51 Rehab woes, for short 52 Westinghouse rival 54 Concern for shipping and software companies

56 Big hit

57 Round windows 58 Advantage ... or what the answer to each starred clue has?

62 Country that lost a quarter of its territory in 2011 63 Parker who was the first president of Facebook 64 * Submitted

65 “Quién ___?”

(“Who knows?”: Sp.) 66 Con

67 Close to 10, say 1 Title also held by many a co. president 2 Commotion

3 One whose guiding philosophy is “What does it matter?” 4 Input in a desalination plant

5 Gryffindor who founded Gryffindor House at Hogwarts

6 Concern for a plumber or government official

7 Big carrier to Tokyo 8 “Dumb, dumb, dumb!” 9 “Mamma Mia!” group 10 Soccer star Messi

11 “The Jungle Book” protagonist 12 Michael ___, onetime Republican Party chairman

16 Snake that’s good with numbers?

18 Jules or Juliette 21 Cause for damage control 22 Singers do it

23 Line of symmetry 24 Hoover, e. g., for short

25 Shortly

29 Give a catlike warning 30 Those niñas

32 Name on a Cognac bottle 35 Good name for a beachcomber?

37 Goes poof! 38 Stereotypical wear for an accountant

39 “Git!”

41 Ending with kick or smart 43 Stopover

44 Big shots at a hospital, informally?

45 Kind of brief in court 46 Pablo ___, Nobel Prizewinning poet

47 Where crime evidence is analyzed 48 Dweller on the Arabian Peninsula

53 ___ es Salaam

55 Art house theater

56 Set- to

58 Women’s World Cup powerhouse 59 Slammer

60 Shoot down 61 Letters after Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand