The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Go over

5 Like the eventual inheritors of

the earth, in Matthew

9 Mark of divinity

13 A G.I. may be seen in it 14 Actress Fisher of “Wedding

Crashers”

15 Brain connection

16 Like fans who hold season

tickets, typically

17 Genre for Agatha Christie or

Arthur Conan Doyle

19 Rapper ___ Nas X

20 Kissing on the subway, e.g., for

short

21 Like some relationships 22 June

25 Baby fox

26 Bit of Western neckwear 28 Items on a checklist

32 One of two sultanates in the

United Nations

34 N.B.A. legend nicknamed

“Black Mamba”

36 Egg cells

37 U-shaped bike

accessory

38 Last word in an improv show 40 A rainbow is said to be a good

one

41 Beseech

42 Word with high or seven 43 Reach for the stars

45 No-frills

47 Things might get

swept up in it

49 ___ jeans

51 Early 19th-century

Australia, for one

54 Water tower?

58 Funny one

59 “Funny one!” 60 Intellectual conformity … or a hint to interpreting 17-, 22and 51-Across

62 Some frills

63 Lay off

64 Net emissions target

65 Lively, in music: Abbr. 66 “Wabbit” hunter Elmer

67 One of two sultanates in the

United Nations

68 Right-hand page numbers,

typically

DOWN

1 Garden item frequently added

to cream cheese

2 World’s fair sight

3 Great thing to feel like

4 Signal agreement

5 Little bit of power

6 Funds might be held in this 7 Classic boulevard liners

8 Boat going back and forth?

9 Would really rather not

10 x, y and sometimes z 11 Romulus, Remus and the

founding of Rome, e.g. 12 Jet-black gem

17 Cheers, boos and such 18 Strike down

20 + or – thing 23 Brother

24 Boosts, redundantly

27 Time period, or an anagram of

one?

29 Cup holder, usually

30 “Back to you”

31 Compos mentis

32 Spill the beans

33 Detective Diaz on “Brooklyn

Nine-Nine”

35 One reading Kerouac or

Ginsberg, say

39 Sleazeball

40 Birthstone after sapphire 42 Inside info

44 Tiff

46 Filled (with)

48 Like scouting patches

50 ___ ball

52 Tums, for one

53 Country songs? 54 End-of-week exclamation 55 Language of Pakistan’s Daily

Khabrain

56 Top prize

57 “How do you like ___

apples?”

61 Glass who shared the first-ever

Pulitzer in Audio Journalism 62 Language in which most words

are monosyllabic