The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Ansari of “Parks and Recreation”

5 Lotion letters

8 Class for expectant mothers 14 Only

15 ___-El (Superman’s birth name)

16 Roberto in Cooperstown 17 It served as its state’s capital before Des Moines 19 Traditional Japanese sword 20 Whack-a-mole implement 21 Where dreams are made? 22 Fleur-de-___

23 Waste receptacle

24 Joe and Jack, say? 27 Voting against

29 Latin “I love”

30 Shows, as shows

31 Set free

33 Glossy coating 35 Medical ethics topic

40 In a drab way 41 Bluesman Willie

42 Asti Spumante, per esempio 45 Noise from a nest 46 Senate rebuke 47 “Barrier” dismantled in 1991 52 Word before or after pack 53 Country’s ___ Brown Band 54 New Orleans-to-Tampa dir. 55 Bratislava resident

57 Even

59 Start of each “S.N.L.” episode … or a hint to the initials of the words in 17-, 24-, 35and 47-Across 61 Adopt-a-Highway concern 62 Director Lee 63 Old-timey “not”

64 Give a good looking-over 65 Jed’s adviser on “The West Wing”

66 Where Southwest Airlines is LUV

DOWN

1 Subject of a Louisville museum

2 Magnify

3 Lacking

4 True believer’s quality 5 Athlete in goggles 6 Smith known as the Poet Laureate of Punk 7 Stylish, slangily 8 Italian tourist destination 9 Car rental choice

10 Bon ___

11 Italian tourist destination 12 More out there 13 Wipes out

18 151, in old Rome 21 Department store founder 23 Indonesian tourist destination

25 Place for a pickup baseball game

26 Fake eyelash, slangily 28 Geometric figure with equal angles

32 Prove one’s humanity, in a way

33 Literary character who lives in the Gloomy Place 34 Goal

36 Apple pickers? 37 Reward for working overtime 38 “Anyone? … Anyone?” 39 Threaded fastener 42 Hungarian sporting dog 43 Dinar spenders

44 “Back of the line!” 48 Closest dwarf planet 49 Together

50 “My turn”

51 Start to snooze, with “off” 56 Winter Olympics star Lindsey 58 Downed

59 Old presidential nickname 60 December 31, in brief