The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Rapids transits? 6 Foot or furlong
10 With 10-Down, enthusiastic south-of-the-border assent 14 Constellation with Rigel and Betelgeuse
15 Prefix with second
16 Prep school near Windsor Castle
17 *Dessert with light and dark streaks
19 Puts the cuffs on
20 The Black Knights of college football
21 Computer seen at a Genius Bar
22 Gustav who composed “The Planets”
23 Dundee denial
24 *First thing to do on a to-do list
27 Building material that was no problem for the Big Bad Wolf 29 Catering hall dispenser 30 Pioneer in email 31 Microsoft virtual assistant introduced in 2014 35 About, on a memo 36 Product warning label appropriate for the answers to the four starred clues 39 Like Brown University since 1971
40 Comic convention, for one 41 Info for an Uber or Lyft customer, for short 42 35mm camera type
43 Sells hard 47 *Sidewinder, for one 52 “Whaaa?”
53 Broncos Hall-of-Famer John 54 ___ Lanka 55 “Encore!”
56 “What a pity”
57 *One having trouble keeping weight off
60 Not prerecorded 61 Establishments at many highway interchanges 62 Like the flavor of some barbecue sauces 63 Discarded part of a watermelon
64 Walk back and forth
65 ___ code
DOWN
1 Residents of the Eternal City 2 Noah’s Ark landing site 3 Less yielding, as a mattress 4 Country singer Keith 5 Show with Kate McKinnon, in brief
6 Open, as a bottle
7 ___ Image Awards 8 Printed publicity, slangily 9 One of 20 for a bear
10 See 10-Across 11 Language in which “thank you” is “grazie,” to natives 12 Excuse meant to elicit sympathy
13 Au courant 18 Angst-ridden rock genre 22 Pumpkin
24 Deuces
25 ___ the mill (ordinary) 26 Steaming mad
28 It’s below 7 on the pH scale 32 Rummage (through) 33 Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great
34 ___ Arbor, Mich.
35 Wee
36 What a whopper! 37 When air-conditioners really hum
38 ESPN’s Arthur ___ Courage Award
39 Post boxes?
42 On the ___ (sneakily) 44 Light particle
45 “I’ve found it!”
46 Crow with nine Grammys 48 Used a stun gun on 49 Justin Timberlake’s former band
50 Came to light
51 Not be serious 55 Something frequently reposted
57 Puppy’s bark
58 “I’m ___ roll!” 59 Comcast, e.g., for short