The New York Times Crossword

No. 0323

ACROSS

1 Run ___ (go wild) 5 Channel for renovators and remodelers 9 Flat-bottomed boat 14 Sleep-inducing pill? 15 Smallest Great Lake by volume 16 Japanese watch brand 17 Website for craftspeople 18 “___ No Mountain High Enough” 19 African animal that charges 20 What a last true believer might believe in 23 Pantry pests 24 “To thine ___ self be true” 25 “Don’t clap yet” 33 Get rid of, as pencil marks 34 Took a chair 35 Bogus 36 Georgia’s capital: Abbr. 37 Founder of the McDonald’s empire 41 Tar Heels’ sch. 42 Cuisine featuring drunken noodles 44 Home of Montreal: Abbr. 45 Teeming throng 47 “There was no choice but for me to say yes!” 51 Smog-monitoring org. 52 Medieval worker 53 It “cannot stand” per 1-Down … or a hint to 20-, 25- and 47-Across 59 Poles or Czechs 60 Dress that ends above the knee 61 Israeli submachine guns 63 [So funny!] 64 Head: Fr. 65 What may descend before the moon? 66 What tree rings represent 67 Put in a plane’s overhead compartment, say 68 Ball that might attract a cat

DOWN

1 President Lincoln, informally 2 Closet pest that loves wool 3 Approximately 4 Features of touch-tone phones and A.T.M.s 5 Physical well-being 6 Dolphins Hall-of-Fame QB Bob 7 Metal food containers 8 Docs for dogs 9 Illegible writing 10 Big cheeses 11 Egyptian goddess of life 12 Parking ticket penalty 13 Rock’s ___ Fighters 21 Input, as data 22 Acknowledge as true 25 ___ bar (Hershey toffee confection) 26 Lead-in to -dontist 27 1980s-’90s NBC legal drama 28 Popped the question 29 Four, on many a golf hole 30 Swahili for “freedom” 31 Smooths the surface of, as wood 32 Show host 38 Light blue shades 39 Brynner of stage and screen 40 Dear: Fr. 43 Freeze, as a pond 46 Not on the clock 48 Grand works 49 Really digs 50 Go over again, as notes 53 Opposite of aweather, to a sailor 54 [So funny!] 55 CPR experts 56 Insects, berries and worms, for a robin 57 Old Testament book next alphabetically after Ezekiel 58 Designer Christian 59 Where pigs wallow 62 Center of the solar system