The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Cocktail often garnished with a lemon twist
9 Israeli port mentioned in the Bible
14 Paul McCartney wrote one about Liverpool
15 1898 chemistry discovery 16 Show promise
17 Square
18 More than impressed 19 Execrate
21 Only three-letter word in Scrabble that requires both blank tiles
22 Strategy game with disks 25 Basic cleaner
26 Chess maneuver with a French name
30 Host
32 Herb often used with potatoes
33 Half brother of Tom Sawyer 34 City north of Baghdad 36 Palm that produces berries 37 Turned up
40 Give a powerful impression of 41 1968 swimming gold medalist Debbie
43 ___ Henry Hoover, former first lady
44 “The Last Don” author
45 “I forgot what I’m supposed to say here!”
46 It always goes to hell
48 Co. behind the podcast “The Daily”
49 Math subj.
51 Parts of a Facebook feed 52 First name at Woodstock 53 George who composed “Give My Regards to Broadway” 58 Celebrate with sprightly dancing
60 Study for the bar? 63 Soak
64 Members of the lute family 65 Eponym in a candy store 66 Reserve
DOWN
1 Home to Bactrian camels 2 ___ horse
3 Zilch
4 Fretful thing to be in 5 Turns down
6 Cause of an explosion 7 Zilch
8 Apple variety
9 Faith that preaches nonviolence to all living creatures
10 ___ Lovelace, computing pioneer who was the daughter of Lord Byron 11 Ends weakly
12 Hairless creature in a nursery rhyme
13 Floor
15 Engine stats
20 “The proper task of life,” per Nietzsche 23 Brand on the Alaska Highway 24 Fruitless 26 Red-cased import 27 “Good going!”
28 Avoid taking unnecessary risks 29 Down-to-earth type? 31 Air show highlights 35 16th-century pope who owned a pet elephant 38 Massive explosion 39 Face-off
42 Closing number of a musical, often 46 Accelerate
47 “Great taste since 1905” sloganeer
48 Depths of despair
50 Boil over 54 Accented cheers 55 Hindu festival of colors 56 Venerable
57 Where Harley-Davidson is HOG
59 French menu word 61 Squeak (by)
62 Bit of hardware