The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 1964 title role for Anthony Quinn
6 Where to do one’s bidding, maybe
10 Not that
14 Like more than half of the earth’s population
15 Some fancywork
16 “The ___ of the Ancient Mariner”
17 Suddenly cut off all communication with … but do so nicely?
19 Great Plains people
20 Leave full
21 Something that may be up one’s sleeve
22 Jokester
23 Cordial shipbuilders?
27 Rude rejoinder popularized by the Fonz of 1970s TV
30 For real
31 Like cheering audiences
32 Something up one’s sleeve?
33 Classroom projectile
35 Pens a seafaring tale?
40 ___ Paradise, narrator of “On the Road”
41 X a box, say
42 Superman’s baby name
43 Flap of skin hanging from a bovine’s neck 46 Fence-sitter’s question
48 Sacramental friars? 50 Oxford and Surrey in “Richard III”
51 Novelist Chang-___ Lee
52 Tooth trouble
56 Con Ed, e.g.: Abbr.
57 “It’s a plan” … and what might be said of 17-, 23-, 35and
48-Across
60 In the public eye
61 Let go
62 Marathoning powerhouse
63 Phonetic initialism along Canadian roadways
64 Nosegay 65 Black tea region
DOWN
1 Sharply turns back the other way 2 Worker welfare grp.
3 Run ___ 4 Start of a paint job 5 Myrmecologist’s specimen 6 Draw out
7 6-0 set, in tennis lingo
8 Bavarian “Bah!”
9 So far
10 Horse’s watering spot
11 What a marathoner may do around mile
20 12 Cry from one who’s fuming
13 Oozes
18 Shankar at Woodstock
22 Prefix with gender
24 As to
25 Radio station on TV
26 Canning tomato
27 Maxims
28 Lightens up?
29 Travel kit filler
32 Back on a cruise
34 Kind of counter in a supermarket
36 Take off
37 Dirt-digging research, for short
38 Heath bar shelfmate
39 Many links
44 “Uh … huh-uh”
45 Scale units: Abbr. 46 Lemony quaff
47 Obey
48 Second rule of waste reduction
49 Makes even
53 Swindles 54 Georgetown athlete
55 North Holland cheese town
57 Syrupy stuff 58 Good Grips kitchen brand
59 Rocksteady precursor