The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 Some trivia venues

5 Airport queue

9 Bookend letters of “Google

Maps,” appropriately

12 Oscar ___, star of “Inside

Llewyn Davis”

14 Unit of courage?

15 Face card in a French deck 16 Principle of the type of activism practiced by 35Across

18 Zoom, for one 19 Congressional district represented by 35-Across from 1987 to 2020

21 Live (together)

23 Outlaw

24 Starter course?

25 Heartless

27 Popular cryptocurrency

29 Do something

30 The “O” of A.O.C.

34 Years abroad

35 Civil rights icon who led a historic march from Selma to Montgomery on 3/7/1965 37 Japan’s largest lake, located

NE of Kyoto

40 Like much avant-garde music 41 ___ Tomé and Príncipe 44 Flower that shares its name

with a sea creature

46 Natural ability

48 Trickster

49 Sharp or flat, say

52 Those in favor

53 Group including 35Across that protested the segregation of public buses 57 ___ card

58 Oxymoronic coinage of 35

Across 61 Impossible N.B.A. game

outcome

62 Some succulents

63 Seat at a counter, maybe 64 Took a load off

65 Teri of “Tootsie”

66 “My mistake!”

DOWN

1 Balloon popper, perhaps 2 Grp. that brought Stephen

Colbert to Baghdad

3 Do quickly, as an assignment 4 “Help!”

5 Signal as a conductor might 6 Actress ___ Deavere Smith 7 Secretly includes on an email 8 Deem appropriate

9 Sue who wrote the so-called

“alphabet series”

10 Destiny’s Child or the

Supremes

11 Sucks up, in a way 13 A.F.L.-___

14 One of the sisters in

Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” 17 Mercury or Venus, e.g. 20 Ancient Andeans

21 Classic TV brand

22 Elf’s foe in “The Lord of the

Rings” 26 Can, in Canterbury 27 Common reply to

“Cómo estás?”

28 Only state with a two-vowel postal code

31 Jackie of “Rush Hour” 32 Starting stake

33 ___-mo replay

35 Foxx of “Soul”

36 Sort

37 Butter and margarine,

nutritionally speaking 38 Sluggishness

39 “No need to introduce us” 41 Utters a sound,

informally

42 Nail, as a test 43 Green-lights

45 Pie in the face, e.g. 47 Popular Japanese

manga series

49 #1 at McDonalds, maybe 50 Suits

51 First sitting prez to fly in an

airplane

54 “Return of the Jedi” dancer 55 Secure, as a ship

56 Dawn goddess

59 Chop or crop

60 Chicago trains