The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Bountiful 6 Nobelist Wiesel 10 Something that might be kept in a bar
13 Like O negative vis-à-vis O positive
14 Turn over
15 You, long ago 16 *Sycophant
18 Let (out)
19 Condition for Jack Nicholson’s character in “As Good as It Gets,” in brief
20 Arias, usually
21 Less coarse
22 All things considered 24 Oil-rich region
25 Before
27 *Classic gin-and-grenadine cocktail 29 Entrepreneur’s goal 32 Pieces that can go left or right 33 One of L.B.J.’s presidential dogs
34 ___ milk
36 Pitch in
37 Lip
40 Metaphor for experience 42 Alternative to O 44 *Military medal
48 ___ Lewis, “The Taste of Country Cooking” writer 49 Sonata closers
50 1996 hit with the lyric “It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife” 53 Good trait
54 TV executive Arledge
55 Rich source of omega-3 fatty acids
58 “Gotcha!”
59 *Annual Florida football game 61 Mine layer 62 Biographer Leon
63 Fix for shortsightedness 64 Playful suffix with “best” 65 Egg ___
66 Three of the last seven words in Joyce’s “Ulysses”
DOWN
1 Ship that Athena helped build, in myth
2 Podcaster Maron 3 Tyrannosaurus rex, for one 4 “BlacKkKlans-man” director, 2018
5 Physicist Mach who lent his name to a measure of speed 6 Measure opposed to strip mining, e.g. 7 Landlocked African country 8 Day in ancient Rome 9 Suffix with rocket
10 Jazz group
11 Classic work famously translated by John Dryden 12 Sell out 15 Pre-Olympic events 17 Japanese theater
21 Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts 23 Lug
24 Faceplanted, say 25 “Bleah!”
26 Canada’s Grand-___ National Historic Site 28 Alternative to a pilsner 30 Scalding
31 Land down under? 35 Bagged leaves? 37 Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes … or what “corrects” the answer to each of the starred clues
38 Actor McKellen
39 New corp. hire, maybe 40 Cash in
41 Team named after its official state bird
43 J.F.K. Library architect 44 Prepare, as a pot roast 45 Sports column
46 Vote out
47 Online troublemakers 51 Singer whose name sounds like a cry of horror
52 Just
54 Overhaul
56 Boo-boo
57 Cougars’ prey
59 Until now
60 Modern term of endearment