The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Quickly microwave

4 Stock index founded in 1885,

informally

10 Cooler in glasses

13 Afflictions

15 Elder Levy in “Schitt’s Creek” 16 Islanders’ grp.

17 People who acknowledge when they’ve been verbally bested?

19 Berkeley, familiarly

20 Paper opener

21 Two for a basket: Abbr. 22 “Sweet!”

23 Ruins a shiny fabric, as a pet

might?

27 Stratovolcano in Sicily

28 Shot taker

30 Computer scientist Turing 33 “Should that be true …” 36 Determined to do

37 Power, as an engine 38 Embassy staffer … or a hint to 17-, 23-,

49- and 59-Across? 40 “S.N.L.” alum Gasteyer 41 Colosseum country

43 Lead-in to girl

44 Skating jump

45 Numb, as a foot

47 MCAT subj.

49 Bad advice from grandpa? 54 Without

55 Desire

56 Spammer’s medium 58 Parabola piece

59 Managed to stomach a

cracker spread? 62 Undefined ordinal 63 Feared fifth-century

ruler

64 Diez menos dos 65 Turn red, maybe 66 Summit attendee 67 Corral, e.g.

DOWN

1 Cylindrical pasta

2 ___ the way

3 Dog owned by a talking

mouse

4 Equipment not needed in

miniature golf

5 Cabana

6 King Tut’s land

7 Profundity

8 “Be right with you”

9 Director Anderson

10 Payroll deduction

11 Parent on a field trip, often 12 Woman’s name that sounds

like a letter of the alphabet 14 Vet

18 Run the show, say 22 Maggie Smith, for one 24 “I’ll do that right away!” 25 International pact that ended

in 2020

26 Blast with a beam of photons 29 Fussy in the extreme 30 Handel’s “La giustizia,” for one 31 Bacchanalian cry 32 Overwhelming amount

34 Took a load off

35 Group of eight

38 “The ___ have it!” 39 Suspend

42 Without

44 At the original speed, in

scores

46 Psychoactive drug from a

cactus

48 “So true!”

50 Volkswagen compact 51 Reversed

52 Org. co-founded by W. E. B.

Du Bois

53 10% offering

54 Castle material 57 Revolutionary Trotsky

59 Eight pts.

60 Fútbol cry

61 Game with the objective of

winning all the cards