The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 Separation

4 Whip through, say

7 Certain bowling alley buttons 13 Counterpart to a receiver,

legally

15 *Complete fools

16 Carry zero weight,

idiomatically

17 Rickety piano, in old music

biz slang

18 Link with

19 Pride : lions :: parliament :

___

21 High-traffic hosp. areas 22 Things tube tops lack 24 *Ones with clay pigeons in

their sights

27 “Feel me?”

29 Melancholy, with “the”

31 “Da ___ Show”

35 Bit of solar wind

36 Wincing, maybe

37 Word before stamp or young 39 *Echoes

40 Made up

41 Take the ___

42 Annual D.C. address since

1913

43 Unpleasant encounter

44 It’s usually blue

46 Hoedown, e.g.

48 *Outrage

53 Event involving “floating,” in

brief

54 Some drafts, for short 56 Fake

57 Frozen treat

60 Closing parts

62 Climate change, gun

regulation, etc.

63 Get some rest … or what

to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue 64 Becoming

65 Onetime presidential

nickname

66 Bit

DOWN

1 Attire for a fighter pilot

2 “Star” of a fall garden 3 Historic caravel

4 “Star Wars” boy, informally 5 Tennis star Gauff

6 1872 utopian novel whose title is an anagram of NOWHERE

7 “Midnight Cowboy” role 8 Music publishing co. owned

by Sony

9 Light of day

10 Language in which “crossword

puzzle” is “krucvortenigmo” 11 Page detached from a

magazine

12 IDs since the Great

Depression, in brief

13 Book of the New Testament 14 Cloyingly sentimental 20 Especially mean

23 Did half of a biathlon

25 Lift up a mountain 26 Walt Disney’s middle name 28 Connector between false

alternatives

30 Home to the N.C.A.A.’s

Aztecs: Abbr.

31 Quite a distance

32 One who’s meditating might

be in this

33 Locomotive, quaintly 34 Some spirits

36 Celebrity chef Jacques 38 Kind of diagram

39 Blacklist

41 Offshore competition 44 Ballroom dance move 45 Tree whose first four letters are an anagram of another tree

47 Spaced out

49 Taboo in one of the Ten

Commandments 50 Namesake of Ithaca’s sea 51 One way to watch a movie 52 Where IBM is “IBM”: Abbr. 53 Goddess of healing and

magic

55 Seinfeld’s car on “Seinfeld” 58 Mooch

59 Undulating swimmer 61 Onetime presidential

nickname